Senior priest of Lord Venkateswara temple of Tirumala P Seshadri, popularly known as Dollar Seshadri, passed away in the early hours of Monday.
Seshadri, 75, presently the Officer-on Special Duty (OSD) of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), came to Visakhapatnam on Sunday to take part in a spiritual programme, suffered heart attack in the night. He breathed his last in the early hours of Monday.
Seshadri who retired on July 31, 2006, on superannuation, had been on extension since then.
Dollar Seshadri had been in the service of Lord Venkateswara on Tirumala for the last 50 years. He had excellent command over Agama Sastra dealing with temple rituals and administration.
Though there was an attempt to remove him from service, he had been able to continue in the service only because of the hold he had on the temple activities.
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