Editing Venkateswara (section)

===Birth===
Every year, hundreds of thousands of devotees donate a large amount of wealth at the [[Venkateswara Temple, Tirumala|Venkateswara Temple]] at [[Tirupati]], [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Avinash P. Subramanyam |date=31 January 2020 |title=Tirupati Lord Venkateshwara earns Rs 3.18 crore per day |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/310120/tirupati-lord-venkateshwara-earns-rs-318-crore-per-day.html |access-date=19 June 2023 |website=[[Deccan Chronicle]]}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> A legend provides the reason for the tradition of providing donations.

[[Narada]] once observed a few rishis performing a holy [[Yajna|yagna]]. Unable to decide who the yagna should benefit, he recruited sage [[Bhrigu]] to decide after he had met with each of the [[Trimurti]] in their abodes. Bhrigu visited [[Brahma]] in [[Brahmaloka]] and [[Shiva]] in [[Mount Kailash|Kailasha]] and went unnoticed by both of these deities. He finally reached [[Vaikuntha]] and met [[Vishnu]], who was absorbed in meditation with his feet being attended to by his consort, the goddess [[Lakshmi]]. A furious Bhrigu kicked Vishnu's chest (the abode of Lakshmi) and angered Lakshmi. But a calm Vishnu asked for forgiveness of Bhrigu, and served the sage by massaging his legs. During this act, he squashed the extra eye that was present on the sole of Bhrigu's foot, which destroyed the sage's egotism. Lakshmi then departed from [[Vaikuntha]], reached [[Kolhapur]] and performed an intense penance for twelve years, after which she was born as [[Padmavathi]] to Akasha Raja.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (Official Website) |url=https://www.tirumala.org/TempleLegend.aspx |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=www.tirumala.org}}</ref> 

After Lakshmi left, Vishnu went to Venkata Hill, sat in an anthill under a tamarind tree beside a pushkarini (lake), and started chanting the name of his wife, Mahalakshmi.<ref>{{Cite book |last=HS |first=Anusha |title=Stories on Lord Venkateshwara Series - 1: From various sources |publisher=Independently published (April 25, 2020) |year=2020 |isbn=979-8640227642 |pages=1 page}}</ref> He then reincarnated as Srinivasa (or presented himself after penance in the ant-hill) as the son of the elderly woman [[Vakula Devi]], who was the rebirth of [[Yasoda|Yashoda]] the deity [[Lord Krishna|Krishna]]'s foster-mother. Unhappy that she had been unable to attend Krishna's wedding to [[Rukmini]], the deity promised that he would be reborn to her as a son, as Srinivasa.<ref>S Krishnasvami Aiyangar (1940). [[iarchive:historyoftirupat035504mbp|''A History Of Tirupati'']], Tirumala Tirupati Devastanam Committee Madras</ref>