The annual Puja ceremony at Akkagarla Gudi located on the First Ghat Road will be observed on December 13. On this occasion, Special Puja will be performed under the aegis of TTD Transport department on Friday.
When TTD was constructing first Ghat Road(Down Ghat Road) in the early1940s, several incidents occurred that hampered the construction process when they removed the seven bricks.
After coming to know about the significance and power of the cave temple by the locals TTD has enshrined these Seven Bricks underneath a huge rock on the First Ghat Road and thereafter the Ghat Road works were completed without any hitch.
The locals strongly believe that these Seven Bricks of this Cave temple are incarnation of “Saptha Matrukas”- Brahmi, Indrani, Kaumari, Vaishnavi, Maheshwari and Chamundi as mentioned in Puranas. In the local language, they worship them as Saptha Gangammas or Eduguru Akkagarlu.
The locals strongly believe that these Folk Deities are the sisters of Sri Venkateswara Swamy and the Guardians of the pilgrims trekking this route and protect the pilgrims to reach their destination safely avoiding road accidents and untoward incidents during their pilgrimage to Tirumala.
TTD has introduced the annual Puja officially in 2008 and since then has been regularly observing this fete in a grand manner. On this auspicious day in the sacred month of Karthika, the employees, locals, devotees offer prayers to these seven folk goddesses seeking their divine blessings.
