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Some More Interesting Facts about Lord Venkateshwara Swamy
The temple contains many stone inscriptions which were installed during the period of Cholas.
Garuda Seva is a popular event held at Tirumala, and during that time, lakhs and lakhs of devotees would throng to the holy Tirumala in order to witness Lord Venkateswara sitting in the Garuda Vahana.
Ancient kings who ruled the present day Andhra Pradesh used to specially worship Lord Venkateswara before going to the battle field, in order to get victory.
Visiting the Tirumala Temple is really an adventurous one, since we could get delighted by seeing the natural scenery and the greenery of the Holy Hills.
It is also believed that Lord Venkateswara watches each and every devotee who visits his temple, and he tries his level best to sort out their problems.
Gifting of the pictures of Lord Venkateswara is considered as a good deed, and it is being done by the devotees in order to attain good fortunes in their lives.
We can also name our children as “Balaji”, “Venkateswara” and “Venkatachalapathy”, in order to inculcate the “VENKATESWARA BHAKTI SPIRIT” on their minds.
Parashurama was the avatar of Lord Vishnu. He is known to be the most sincere devotee of Lord Shiva. He has controlled the power of Kshatriya, who began to abuse their power, and cause problems to the ordinary people and tortured them.
According to Hindu legends, Parashurama was the son of sage Jamadagni and his wife Renuka, and his birthplace is believed to be in Uttar Pradesh. They had a celestial wish fulfilling cow. A king named Kartaviryajuna had stolen their cow. When Parashurama learns about this crime, he fought and kills the king, and he returned with the holy cow. Sage Jamadagni has asked him to visit various holy temples, in order to eliminate the sin caused by killing the king. After Parashurama returns from pilgrimage, he was known that his father was killed by the warriors. Parashurama kills many warriors and finally, he had thrown all his weapons and takes up meditation.
Some of the unknown facts about Lord Parasurama are as follows:-