Around seven lakh pilgrims, who took a holy dip in river Krishna for eight days during the ongoing Krishna Pushkarams, visited Indrakeeladri for the darshan of Goddess Kanakadurga, and as many as 15 lakhs laddus were sold as prasadam in various counters spread across the temple premises. The 12-day long river fest which commenced on August 12 also witnessed 10,000 packets of Sambar rice distributed to the pilgrims by the temple authorities every day.
“Nearly 3,000 trained people are involved in the making of the laddus and other prasadams like Pulihora and Bhavani Prasadam round the clock,” said the sources. The sources also said that everyday at the Goddess was giving darshan for 22 hours and pilgrims are taking walking three to four kilometres to take the darshan of the Goddess.