“It was a huge luxury in those days,” says Ramamurthy. Stotram When he was in class IV, in 1960, KS Ramamurthy’s father bought home a radio. “I once heard it being played on a truck, somewhere in the middle of the Rajasthan desert, early in the morning,” he says.
“I have heard the Suprabhatam in the unlikeliest of places,” says Venkatesh, who would go on to write a book on the hymn. Every single person there knew the prayer. To prove this point, he went around the café, asking customers if they had heard of it. Venkatesh’s friend, who had never heard of the prayer before, took issue with the contention that it was probably the most widely known prayer in South India. The two friends’ conversation turned to the Suprabhatam. Venkatesh, who had just given up a corporate career to pursue other interests, had been learning Sanskrit. Viswamitra uses these words to wake them up, asking the princes to get ready to face the Sometime last year, Parthasarathy Venkatesh was having coffee with a close friend in a restaurant in Jayanagar. Rama and Lakshmana are with their guru, the sage Viswamitra, and are asleep in his ashram. According to the temple website, “This ritual is performed at Sayana Mandapam inside sanctum sanctorum to wake up the Lord from His celestial sleep, amidst the rhythmic chanting of vedic hymns.” The first of the hymns begins with the words “Kausalya Supraja Rama…” The famous opening verse of the Suprabhatam comes from Valmiki’s Ramayana, chapter 23 of the first section, the Balakaanda. The Suprabhata seva is the first seva of the day at the temple. And in the early hours of the next day, the idol is brought back to the Garba Griha, to listen to the prayers of the devotees who come to Tirumala for a glimpse of the deity. Every night, the Bhoga Srinivasa Murthy – the silver replica of the main deity at the temple – is laid to bed.
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