Suprabhatam Every night, the Bhoga Srinivasa Murthy – the silver replica of the main deity at the temple – is laid to bed. All over South India, and in many parts of the north, the recital of the Suprabhatam marks the dawn of a new day, and nowhere more so than at the temple of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala. And if you listen hard enough, you can hear the sound of MS Subbulakshmi’s Suprabhatam. After all, how many hymns are sung to wake a sleeping God? If you take a walk through the streets of some of Bengaluru’s residential areas, a little before dawn, when birdsong is just beginning, you will see the occasional house with the lights on in the kitchen.
Composed around 1430 AD, the Suprabhatam has retained its hold on the minds of devotees all over India, not least because of MS Subbulakshmi ’s iconic rendition.
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