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Ram navami has the city on standstill as devotees offer prayers and sweets

SWEET TOUCH: A huge `Siva Dhanussu' made of ghee sweets was the cynosure of all eyes at the celestial wedding of lord Sri Rama at Besant Road on Tuesday. — PHOTO: RAJU. V.

VIJAYAWADA : Shopping activity came to a standstill temporarily on the ever-busy Besant Road, which was turned into a venue for the celestial wedding of Lord Rama and Goddess Sita, here on Tuesday. The kilometre-long shopping zone was decorated with huge pandals and illuminations, amidst which the traders and shoppers built a temporary kalyana mandapam with flowers.

Before the auspicious wedding, a procession was taken out on a flower chariot with the deities of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana and Anjaneya on the Besant Road. The procession began at the Ramalayam on Kaleswararao Road to the kalyana mandapam.

`Special gift'

A 50-kg `Siva Dhanussu' made of ghee sweets was the cynosure of all eyes at the Sitarama Kalyanam. Proprietor of Pen Corner stationery showroom Nageswara Rao presented this special gift to the lord on the occasion of the wedding. After the Kalyanotsavam, the organisers put this unique sweet on auction, along with a 63 kg `laddu' offered to the Lord by Nadars' Coffee and General Stores. One-Town-based Balaji Ghee Sweets made this sweet. Brahmaji Rao of Roopkala showroom bought the special sweet in an auction paying Rs. 8,100.

The minimum price for the `laddu,' prepared by Sweet Magic showroom, was fixed at Rs. 5,000, but the final bidder, Nunna Veera Vasantha Rao, a real estate agent from Vidyadharapuram, however, took it home after paying Rs. 26,000. This was the third year that a huge laddu was put for auction and last year it fetched was Rs. 12,600 in an auction. A group of girls from the United Kingdom, who were on the city on a study tour, witnessed the celestial wedding sitting in the front row.

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