While fervour may affect certain parts of the book, overall, it lends enthusiasm for a subject that academicians or scholars may have bored us with. An ardent devotee of the prayer and the faith has written this book. Along the way, it attempts to make sense of the prayer’s possible audience reception through history (though there are some gaps here), and the many meanings it tries to capture and convey. As part of this effort, it gives us deep background into the locale the verses emerged from, namely, first the Tirupati temple and later the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) and their patronage. This book gives us a close reading of the text, the historical and philosophical discourses that inform it, the possible circumstances behind its creation, and its influence over centuries. In the last century, MS Subbalakshmi immortalised it. The Venkatesa Suprabhatam is a famous morning prayer to wake up god Vishnu.
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