Today, the TDD released the tickets at 9 am and the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam Board has released Rs 300 darshan tickets for the August quota. TTD has announced that around 5,000 tickets would be available each day on the website and devotes can get these tickets through the TTD official website – tirupatibalaji.ap.gov.in and the tickets are also available on the Govinda application.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, a large crowd of people gathered in the temple to offer prayers on the occasion of Tholi Ekadashi. Special poojas were performed by Vedic Scholars in the temple on the auspicious occasion.
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Many Telugu celebrities like Srikanth and Balakrishna, along with commoners, visited the temple to offer prayers today in honor of Toli Ekadashi. On Monday, around 17,073 devotees visited the temple and offered prayers and have amassed Rs 1.7 crore as gifts.
On Monday, a Hyderabad-based businessman, M S Prasad, has donated a sword to Sri Venkateshwara Swamy at Tirumala. The price of the gifted sword is 1 crore and the weight of the sword is around five kilograms (two kilograms gold and three kilograms silver).
The devotee handed over the sword to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Additional Executive Officer AV Dharma Reddy at Ranganayakula Mandapam in the Srivari Temple, Tirumala.