At the Mahadwaram of the temple, to the left side there is a crowbar by which Ananthatalvar had hit Lord Venkateswara Swamy on the chin when Swamy was in his childhood which oozed blood. Since then the tradition of applying sandalwood to his chin has come into existence. It is said that there is real hair to the idol of Lord Venkateswara and is rumored that knots never appear in this hair.
At a distance of 22 km from this sacred place there exists a village where no one is allowed except the residents of the village. The women of that village have a tradition of not wearing blouse. The village has a garden of flowers from where the flowers are fetched and used in the sanctum of Lord Venkateswara Swamy. Not just flowers, items like Milk, ghee, Butter and all others used for the worship of the Lord are brought just from this village.
Every day the idol of the God is decorated at the bottom with Dhoti and with saree on the top. There exist a service which costs Rs.50,000 and the couple who are participating in this service will be presented with this pair of Dhoti for men and saree for the women.
The chance of getting this service is very rare as the number of tickets will be less. You can hear the sound of ocean when you place an ear on the back of Lord and no matter how many times you clean the back there exist moisture on the back of the idol.
