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Low key celestial wedding of Lord Rama owing to lockdown

Hyderabad, Apr 2 (UNI) Amid chanting of Vedic mantras, priests conducted the celestial wedding of Lord Rama and His consort Sita inside the famous Sri Sitaramaswamy temple on the banks of the Godavri in Bhardraachalam in Telangana, on Thursday.
For the first time in the history of the 17th century temple, the wedding inside the temple was a low key affair without the presence of lakhs of devotees drawn from different parts of the country who used to watch the grand celestial wedding normally.
But the nationwide total lockdown now in place to fight the new coronavirus,authorities had prohibited entry of devotees inside the temple which had been built by saint-composer Bhakta Ramadasu.
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