As told in various Puranas, the Venkatachala Mahatmya, and oral narratives, Venkateswara incarnates as Srinivasa on earth and dwells in a termite mound on Tirumala hill. One day he leaves to hunt an elephant, sees the princess Padmavati, and falls in love with her. She rejects him at first but later becomes lovesick for the god. Venkateswara disguises himself as a fortune-teller who reveals that the cure for Padmavati’s ailment is to marry Srinivasa (Venkateswara). In some narratives Padmavati is described as an incarnation of Lakshmi, Vishnu’s wife, though in other versions Padmavati is Vishnu’s second wife.
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