Articles by Bhaskara Venugopal


machines which are not designed to take the tremendously high calorific value of the imported stuff. Interestingly, some of the leading private TILL about 10th century, the Tirumala temple was not considered particularly important or holy. At the beginning of the 10th century, when Saivaite influence gained prominence, Sri Vaish- nava leaders were forced to seek some place where there was no room for sectarian controversy. The Tirumala temple, where no settled form of wor- aip had been established till then, was thus chosen by Sri Vaishnava leaders. A silver image of the Lord was duly consecrated (in 966) and subsequently the high ideals of Nammalvar put into practice contributed to the growth in the popularity of the temple. The temple enjoyed considerable prosperity, especially under the Vijayana- gara kings.