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The Tirupati Balaji Temple in Andhra Pradesh is known as one of the richest Indian temples and the highest-earning Hindu shrines in the world.<\/strong> Speculations about the Tirupati Tirumala Temple\u2019s annual revenue or monthly income or daily earnings are always high. The hundi at the Tirumala shrine of Lord Venkateswara attracts cash offerings worth up to Rs. 3 crore on a daily basis, except during the 6-day Vedic ceremony, Astabandhana Balalaya Maha Samprokshanam, when restricted entry of devotees into the shrine brings daily cash offerings down to Rs. 73 lakh.<\/p>\n

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Recently, a demigod of the global IT industry has surfaced to beat the Tirupati Balaji Temple\u2019s income from devotees\u2019 cash offerings to the hundi.<\/strong> The demigod is none other than Google CEO Sundar Pichai whose salary is another interesting subject of curiosity among netizens. \u201cIs Sundar Pichai a billionaire?\u201d, \u201cSundar Pichai net worth\u201d, \u201cSundar Pichai vs Mukesh Ambani net worth\u201d, \u201cSundar Pichai income\u201d are some of the most searched topics in Google.<\/p>\n

One of the richest Indian American CEOs, Sundar Pichai who hails from the temple town of Madurai in South India has earned Rs. 1470 crores in the US fiscal 2018, as per the available reports. It means that a daily average earning of Rs. 4 crore totals up Sundar Pichai\u2019s income in the FY 2018 and thereby making him beat the Tirupati Balaji Temple\u2019s income from cash offerings by a few crores in Indian currency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the fiscal 2019, Sundar Pichai\u2019s annual income would have been more than Rs. 1470 crores if he had not turned down a grant of unvested stock worth $58 million \/ Rs. 405 crore<\/strong> from Google Alphabet in 2018. The reason he gave for refusing to take an additional Rs. 405 crore is that he was already being paid enough. He got stocks worth $250 million in 2014 when he wore the hat of Google CEO.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does he think of himself? How could he outdo Lord Venkateswara in daily income and become the highest earning South Indian icon? Last month the Padmanabhaswamy Temple tried to surpass the Tirupati Balaji Temple\u2019s income, but failed,\u201d said some residents of the temple town.<\/p>\n

However, if the Tirupati Tirumala Temple\u2019s revenue is taken into account in its totality from several different sources, such as sale of laddu prasadam<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, accommodation of devotees, sale of hair from devotees\u2019 tonsured heads and interest on gold deposits in banks, other than cash offerings to the hundi, it is double of Google CEO Sundar Pichai\u2019s annual income.<\/p>\n

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A little more than Rs. 3 billion of the Tirupati Balaji Temple\u2019s annual income comes from the sale of laddu prasadam and the auction of hair donated by hundreds of thousands of devotees at the hilltop shrine. Notably, many Indian American businesspersons and CEOs catch flights to Chennai from USA<\/span><\/a> for a visit to the Tirumala Balaji Temple in Tirupati and donate to the temple hundi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tirupati Balaji Temple in Andhra Pradesh is known as one of the richest Indian temples and the highest-earning Hindu shrines in the world. Speculations about the Tirupati Tirumala Temple\u2019s annual revenue or monthly income or daily earnings are always high. The hundi at the Tirumala shrine of Lord Venkateswara attracts cash offerings worth up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[226,230],"yoast_head":"\nTirupati Lord Balaji vs Sundar Pichai: Internet Speculates Who Earns More These Days<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Internet speculates that Google CEO Sundar Pichai's income beats Tirupati Balaji Temple's income from daily cash offerings in the fiscal 2018. 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