Thousands of devotees participate in Giri Pradakshina at Annavaram

Thousands of devotees participated in Giri Pradakshina marking Karthika Pournami at the Sri Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Swamy Vari Devasthanam campus at Annavaram in Kakinada district on Wednesday.

The idols of Sri Veera Venkata Sathyanarayana Swamy are taken out in two sessions— in the first, the idols were taken on a palanquin, for eight kilometres surrounding the Annavaram hill via the Pampa river and it ended in the afternoon. Later, in a similar procession, the idols were taken on a chariot. In both the processions, devotees walked along with deities.

In an official release, Kakinada Superintendent of Police G. Bindu Madhav said that the Giri Pradakshina was completed peacefully.