Editing Venkateswara (section)

===Festivals===
In the Venkateswara Temple over 433 festivals are being observed in 365 days of a year suiting the title "Nitya Kalyanam Paccha Toranam" where every day is a festival.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tirumala- The Paradise of Festivals|url=http://news.tirumala.org/tirumala-the-paradise-of-festivals/|access-date=7 June 2015}}</ref>

====Sri Venkateswara Brahmotsavams====
[[File:Lord Venkateswara on Gaja Vahanam..JPG|thumb|[[Venkateswara Temple]] in Brahmotsavams]]

[[Srivari Brahmotsavam|Sri Venkateswara Brahmotsavams]], a nine-day event, which is celebrated every year during month of October, is the major event of Venkateswara Temple. During brahmotsavams the processional deity [[Malayappa swami|Malayappa]] along with his consorts SriDevi and BhuDevi, is taken in a procession in four mada streets around the temple on different vahanams.<ref>{{cite book | title = Srivari Brahmotsavam| publisher = The Hindu | year = 1975  | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=FXZMAgAAQBAJ&q=tirupati+brahmotsavams+the+hindu&pg=PA26 |page=26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=8th Day of Srivari Salakatla Brahmotsavam-Aswa Vahanam on Oct 12|date=12 October 2013|newspaper=Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams News|url=http://news.ttdevasthanams.com/8th-day-of-srivari-salakatla-brahmotsavam-aswa-vahanam-on-oct-12/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318182257/http://news.ttdevasthanams.com/8th-day-of-srivari-salakatla-brahmotsavam-aswa-vahanam-on-oct-12/|archive-date=18 March 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Vaikuntha Ekadashi====
[[Vaikuntha Ekadashi]], the day on which it is believed that Vaikunta Dwarams will be opened. The Tirumala Venkateswara Temple will be flooded with devotees, to have a darshan of Venkateswara through special entrance which encircles inner sanctum called "Vaikunta Dwaram".<ref>{{cite news|title=Pilgrims throng Tirumala |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/tirumala-reels-under-pilgrim-rush/article6742380.ece|access-date=21 June 2015|newspaper=The Hindu|date=January 2015|last1=Shukla|first1=G. P.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Pilgrims throng Tirumala |url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/450956/15-lakh-converge-tirumala-vaikuntha.html|publisher=Deccan Herald|access-date=21 June 2015|date=January 2015}}</ref> 

====Rathasapthami====
[[Ratha Saptami]], is another festival, celebrated during February, when Venkateswara's processional deity (Malayappa) is taken in a procession around the temple on seven different [[vahana]]ms starting from early morning to late night.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.geocities.com/suman_malepati/rathasaptami.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091027133227/http://www.geocities.com/suman_malepati/rathasaptami.html | archive-date = 27 October 2009 | title = Rathasapthami photos}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Narayan|first=K.K.V|title= Flipside of Hindu Symbolism: Sociological and Scientific Linkages in Hinduism|page=26|accessdate=2009-11-26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ewRfp4qpvt4C&q=Ratha+Sapthami&pg=PT26|publisher= Fultus Corporation|year= 2007|isbn=978-1-59682-117-0}}</ref>