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Tirupati Tirumala Temples History

Tirumala Sri Varahaswami Temple Swami Pushkarini Sri Bedi Anjaneyaswami Silathoranam Srivari Padalu Papavinasam Akasaganga Theertham Hathiram Bhavaji Tiruchanoor Appalayagunta Narayanavaram Nagalapuram Surutapalli Karvetnagaram Srikalahasti Srinivasa Mangapuram Mukkoti Talakona Chandragiri Fort Sri Govindarajaswami Temple Sri Kodandaramaswami Temple Sri Kapileshwaraswami Temple Kanipakam Aragonda Golden Temple

          Hathiram Bhavaji was a Bengal devotee who came to the hill 600 years ago to worship Lord Venkateshwara. He built an ashram where he lived alone, and was known as Sevadasji. As his mode of worship was mystical and different, he was avoided by the others. So the Lord visited him every night and they would play a game of Dice together.

           One night the Lord left his Pearl necklace in his house. When Sevadas took it to the temple, his story was not believed, and he was imprisoned for theft. Sevdas prayed to the Lord to prove his innocence. At midnight, a white elephant entered the prison cell. The terrified jailers ran & temple authorities opened the prison doors, they found that the Elephant was eating all the sugarcanes which they ordered him to eat, the elephant vanished before their eyes, leaving them dumbfounded, Sevdas ran to the temple shouting "Hathiram" (hathi =elephant). The Nawab trusted the devotion & appointed him as a Principal officer of the temple. His innocence was established and came to be known as Hathiram Mahant.