ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021
UPDATED: April 23, 2021 20:53 IST
Marking the spot: The TTD expert panel after announcing that Anjanadri was Hanuman’s birthplace; (right) the Tirumala hill range and the Venkateswara temple
On April 21, on the occasion of Sri Rama Navami, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), custodian of the richest Hindu shrine, unveiled “mythological, epigraphic and geographic evidence” to claim that Tirumala is the birthplace of the Hindu god Hanuman. To bolster the claim, the TTD had constituted an eight-member committee, including Sanskrit and Vedic scholars and even a scientist from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), in December 2020 to produce “irrefutable” evidence on the purported Hanuman janmabhoomi. This came after questions were raised during the special religious discourses the TTD held in June last year when participants asked why there were uncertainties about the birthplace. It seems bhakts were mentioning several places with simi
Due to the lack of evidence, many people claim mythological incidents to have happened at their place. One such case is the birthplace of Lord Hanuman.