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Ramanuja also
arranged for the recitation of Nachiyar Tiruppavai, a famous collection in the Prabandbas,
for the proper worship of the temple. In the temple, be elitrusted the work to an early
Vaikhanasa priest called Bimbadhara. Sri Ramanuja also had the temple of Sri Govindaraja
built. Sri Ramanuja also restored the two wells for the temple service and on the bank of
the step-well he set up images of Srinivasa and Bhoodevi, and arranged that the flowers
used for the temple service should be thrown into the well. Sri Ramanuja's attention was
also drawn to a Naga jewel, which was worn, on only one arm of Sri Venkateswara. It was
stated that a Gajapathi king by name Veera Narasimha was at Tirupati in the course of
pilgrimage, and arranged for the construction of a tower. At this stage, Lord Adisesha
appeared before him in a dream, and told him that, since the whole hill was his own body,
the weight of the tower was increasing the load on him. The king thereupon stopped the
tower and, in token of the Lord Adisesha appearing before him, got a representation of
Adisesha made as a jewel and placed it on one of the arms of the God.
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