Tirupati

Tirupati (తిరుపతి in Telugu, ????????? in Tamil) is a temple town in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located in the foot hills of Tirumala. It is one of the holiest places in Hinduism and is well known for the sacrifice of hair by its devotees. Tirupati, or Aadhi Varaha Kshetra, as it is known in the Puranas (Scriptures on Hindu Mythology), is an important mountainous pilgrimage site in the Hindu world. It is dedicated to Vishnu the second deity of the Hindu Holy Trinity who assumes the role of preserver of the cosmos. In this temple Vishnu resides as Venkateswara, an avatar or incarnation of Vishnu. The deity is seen with two arms as opposed to the commonly seen four-armed image of Vishnu. The goddess Sri, or lakshmi (Vishnu's consort), resides on the chest of Venketeswara thus he is also known by the other epithet of Srinivasa (the one who Sri resides in). The deity is seen by devotees as the Kaliyuga varada, that is the boon-granting lord of Kaliyuga (the fourth age of Hindu horology). Tirupati is held in particular reverence by the Vaishnava sect of South India, known as the Sri Vaishnava.

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Chittoor: Chittoor, also known as Chittur, is a city and district of India's Andhra Pradesh state. It is famous for the Tirupati, Kanipakam and Sri Kalahasti temples. Population 133,462 (1991 census). Chittoor is in the Poini River valley of southernmost Andhra Pradesh, on the Bangalore-Chennai highway. It i...