{"id":246910,"date":"2024-02-24T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T04:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=246910"},"modified":"2024-02-24T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T04:16:08","slug":"tirupathi-birthday-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/tirupathi-birthday-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Tirupathi Birthday today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1791750054394036522\" data-legacy-message-id=\"18dd932e6e71812a\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":s0\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":rz\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Temple city popular\u00a0with the TTD ,\u00a0 is believed, was founded on this date in 1130 AD.\u00a0On Tirupati\u2019s birthday, MCT would organise special rituals as well as a celebratory procession along the streets surrounding the Govindaraja Swamy temple.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Feb 24, 894 years ago, Sri Vaishnavite saint Bhagawad Ramanujacharya laid the foundation stone for the Govindaraja Swamy temple, marking the beginning of Tirupati&#8217;s development into a town.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Last year, Tirupati legislator Bhumana Karunakar Reddy referenced ancient inscriptions discovered inside the temple, which proved Ramanujacharya established the temple city on Feb 24.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The inscriptions state Tirupati was founded on \u201cPhalguna Pournami\u201d and named \u201cGovindaraja Pattanam\u201d before it came to be known as \u201cRamanuja Puram\u201d in the 13th Century.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0MLA Bhumana said Bhagavad Ramanujacharya formulated the rituals that are still being conducted at the Tirumala temple. By founding the Govindaraja temple and the city around it, Ramanuja essentially created Tirupati as an urban and religious centre.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Temple city popular\u00a0with the TTD ,\u00a0 is believed, was founded on this date in 1130 AD.\u00a0On Tirupati\u2019s birthday, MCT would organise special rituals as well as a celebratory procession along the streets surrounding the Govindaraja Swamy temple. On Feb 24, 894 years ago, Sri Vaishnavite saint Bhagawad Ramanujacharya laid the foundation stone for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":246911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1678,27,113636],"class_list":["post-246910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-lord-balaji","tag-ttd","tag-ttd-birthday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ttd-15.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246912,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246910\/revisions\/246912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}