The house that preserves idols of Rama and Sita, worshipped by Thyagaraja

Key Highlights

• In the narrow Varagappa Iyer Lane off the bustling South Main Street, devotees queue up at a house named after Thyagaraja.
• It is here that the idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna and Anjaneya, worshipped by Thyagaraja himself, are preserved, along with a portrait of the saint-composer said to have been drawn by his disciples.
• Sita is seated on Rama’s lap, while Bharata holds an umbrella and Shatrughna waves a fly-whisk.
• Lakshmana and Anjaneya stand before them with their hands folded in prayer.
• “I belong to the seventh generation that has been worshipping these idols and organising the aradhana,” said S.