hVaikunta Ekadashi was celebrated in the city on Friday sans the fervour and the crowd at the various temples dedicated to Sri Venkateshwara. Though some of the temples including Yoga Narasimhaswamy temple in Vijayanagar, Venkateshwara temple attached to Maruti temple in Gangotri Layout and Sri Venkateshwara temple at Sri Ganapathi Sachhidananda Ashram were open, the crowd was relatively muted. Vaikunta Ekadashi traditionally draws a large crowd at Sri Ranganathaswamy temple at Srirangapatna. The temple at Srirangapatna was open but sources said the crowd was relatively less due to the pandemic. Many devotees tend to visit all the three temples on the same day on the occasion of Vaikunta Ekadashi day.

Source: The Hindu December 25, 2020 17:23 UTC