Each of the Ashta Mathas performs temple management activities for two years in a cyclical order. The daily sevas (offerings to god) and administration of the Krishna Mathas is managed by the Ashta Mathas (eight monasteries). The temple also offers prasadam (lunch) at noon and is popularly called Anna Brahma as it feeds a vast number of devotees. The unique feature of the temple is that the deity is worshipped through a silver-plated window with nine holes (Navagraha Kindi). It is often mistaken to be the Kanakuna Kindi. A similar window covers the immediate front of the Vigraha and is called Navagraha Kindi. Devotees always have darshan of Lord Krishna through the inner window, known as the Navagruha Kindi & the outer window known as the Kanakana Kindi, which is decorated by an arch named after him. All the other Vigrahas in other Ashta Muthas face west as well. As told by Sri Madhvacharya, in his Tantrasara Sangraha, the Vigraha is placed Pashchimabhimukha (facing west). It is believed that Madhwacharya found the vigraha of Shri Krishna in a large ball of gopichandana. He was the founder of the Dwaita school of Vedanta. The Krishna Matha was founded by the Vaishnavite saint Jagadguru Shri Madhvacharya in the 13th century.
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