Kadapa, July 22, 2013: The Kalyanotsavam of Sri Soumyanatha Swamy with his consorts Sridevi and Bhoodevi was performed with grandeur and religious fervour in Abhijit Lagnam on Ashada Suddha Trayodasi in Sri Soumyanatha Swamy temple at Nandalur on Sunday.

Priests Akhil Deekshithulu and Saicharan performed the Kalyanotsavam as per Vaikhanasa Agama Sastram as a large number of devotees witnessed the divine wedlock.

Endowments officials presented mutyala thalambralu on behalf of the government.

The presiding deities were taken round in pallaki seva after the Kalyanotsavam. Temple trust board chairman Yeddala Subbarayudu oversaw the programme. Congress leader Meda Mallikarjuna Reddy, Kondapalle Subbarayudu, Palle Subramanyam, Ameer Basha and B. Jayaram participated.

An industrialist from Tirupati Somalaraju Chandrasekhara Raju organised annadanam later. The presiding deities were taken round in Gajavahanam on Sunday night.

Source: The Hindu, DT. July 22, 2013.