FAMOUS FESTIVALS

BATHUKUMMA

                 Bathukamma is our state festival.It is one of the major festival celebrated in our state festival with lot of colors and flowers. This is nine days festival During these days people decorates their homes and streets. On this day, people of the state Worship Goddess Gauri, who is known as Bathukamma. Devotees visits nearby temples or street to celebrate this colorful festival.Gauri devi is decorated with different colorful flowers.

COLORFUL FLOWERS 

Bathukumma jathara, which commences two days before dusshera festival, is organised where both festivals are observed .Women,clad in beautiful sarees decorate a small wooden platform in a circular arrangement with layers in order to make a conical arrangement of flowers .

             People worship goddess Bathukumma for nine days and the last day the goddess is immeresd in rivers after completion of rituals. The festivities continue  for nine days ending on a crescendo with the finale, saddula Bathukamma, where five varieties of special Telangana rice dishes made from lemon,coconut,tamarind,sesame are offered to the Goddess.

                                         BONALU

Telangana state's one of the  most famous festival. Bonalu or Mahankali bonalu is a Hindu festival, Goddess Mahankali is worshipped.The word bonam is a corrupation of the word Bhojanam which means a meal or a feast in telugu ,is an offering to Mother Goddess. Bonalu is an annual festival of Telangana celebrated in Twin cities Hyderabad, Secunderabad and other parts of Telangana, India.Special pooja's are performed for Yellamma on the first and last day of the festival.

         women prepare rice cooked with milk and jaggery in a new brass or Earthern pot adorned with Neem leaves, tumeric, vermilion and a lit lamp on the top of the pot.

POTHURAJU:

pothuraju is the brother of Mother goddess, is represented in the procession by a well-built, bare-bodied man, wearing a small tightly draped red dhoti and bells on his ankles, and anointed with tumeric on his body and vermillion on his forehead. He dances to resounding drums.  

He always dances before the palaharam bandi, the procession.He is considered the initiator of   festivities and the protector of the community. He leads the tranced female dancers who are under spell of the mother Goddess to the temple, with lashing whips and emerald neem leaves tied around their waists ,accompained by trumpets and drums.

        

Edupayala Durgamma Temple:

       The temple of Sri Edupayala vana Durga Bhavani is situated close Nagasanpally in Medak dist area of Telangana state. Built in 12th century, Edupayala temple is one of the most famous and powerful temple in Telangana.

      River Manjeera flows as seven streams and they confluence at this place. Dedicated to Goddess Durga, the seven streams of Manjeera river were formed with the ancient sages called Jamadagni, Atri, Kasyapa, Viswamitra, Vasistha, Bharadwaja, Gowtama.

   SIGNIFICANCE:

 Edupayala history was that here seven rivulets meet at apoint from top of the river on the way to the temple in a den where Durgamma idol was seen and thet is the reason it known as edupayala Durgamma.

                  The temple is also famous for jatara , a three -day festival celebrated during Shivarathi in the month of February.

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