Snippets about Tirupati temple

The seven hills of Tirumala are Seshadri, Neeladri, Garudadri, Anjanadri, Vrushabadri, Narayanadri and Venkatadri.

• Chola dynasty ruler Thondaiman, soon after a dream about Lord Vishnu, is believed to have first built the temple
• Donations given by devotees equal nearly $2 million every month
• Software with complex queueing algorithms have been implemented for queue management in the temple.
• Auctions of human hair fetched a revenue of $25 million in 2007
• Temple admission ticket sales fetched a revenue of $25 million in 2007

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