Tirupati Thimmappa is very much alive in janapada (kannada) culture of south India

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. When people take piligrimage to Tirupati, they chant 'Tirupati Thimmappana Padakke Govinda Govindaa'. Gathering folklore

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Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...

knowledge of Indian Villages may give more in depth history and heritage of Tirupati Temple. Tirupati Thimmappa is also known as richest God.