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Sri Anantalwar Gaddapara - After crossing the Main gateway, an iron bar appears on the wall named “Anantalwar gunapam/gaddapara/crowbar”.
Sri Anantalwar Visiting Tirumala
On the order of Ramanuja, Anantalwar, a Vaishnavite came to Tirumala with his wife for a flower offering to swami.
He decided to build a tank for watering the plants in the garden. He was a person who did not like anybody to share his work except his wife. Even when Swami came as a boy to help him there was no use. At last, the wife of Anantalwar agreed to the boy’s cooperation. The reason for that was she was pregnant.
When the work of digging the tank was being continued at full speed, Anantalwar smelling a doubt lifted his head and saw the Boy.
He tried to catch the boy but it all went in vain.
Crowbar hits boy's chin
Then he threw the iron Crowbar at him. The bar hit the chin of the boy.
In the evening Anantalwar saw blood oozing from the chin of swami and realized the boy appeared in the morning was none other than Swami. When he wept, swami consoled him and asked him to hang the iron bar on the wall so that all the pilgrims could look at it.
Anantalwar Garden
Anantalwar fulfilled his life by offering floral service to the Lord of Tirumala. He was a close disciple of Bhagavad Ramanuja. On the instructions of his preceptor, he offered garlands of variegated flowers to Lord Srinivasa. He was interred at Tirumala shrine itself. He was not only a great devotee of Lord Srinivasa, but also a great disciple of his preceptor.
There is the garden raised by Anantalwar and his cemetery in the greater circumambulation circle to the southwest of the temple. It is surprising to note that Sri Malayappa Swami goes to the garden twice every year to bless this devotee. Many wonderful incidents took place between Anantalwar and the Lord.
