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
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TTD declares Anjanadri in Tirumala is Hanuman s birthplace
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, which governs the ancient shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala in Tirupati, on Wednesday announced that Lord Hanuman s birthplace was Anjanadri, a hillock at Japali Theertham located about 5 km from north of the hill temple. The announcement, on Ram Navami day, was made by a TTD constituted committee of scholars from different fields led by Prof Muralidhara Sharma, Vice-Chancellor of National
Sanskrit University in Tirupati, in the presence of Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit.
TTD Executive Officer K S Jawahar Reddy and Additional Executive Officer AV Dharma Reddy were also present.
TTD provides evidence for the birthplace of Hanuman Published by GulteDesk April 21, 2021
There is a debate going on the issue of Lord Hanuman’s birthplace for quite some time now. The Tirumala Tirupati Devastanam board claims Anjanadri hill located in Tirupati is the birthplace of Hanuman. On the flip side, the government of Karnataka claimed Hampi as the place where Hanuman was born. Now, the former argued that it has enough proofs to prove Tirumala as the birthplace of Hanuman.
Speaking in a press meet, National Sanskrit University’s VC Acharya Muralidhara Sharma said that a team of pandits has been working on collecting proofs for the last four months, to claim Anjanadri hill as the birthplace of Hanuman. They have collected enough mythological, geographical, and historical evidence that proves Anjanadri as the birthplace of Hanuman.
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