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27/09/22 20:54 PM IST

Bathukamma

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  • Bathukamma is being celebrated in Telangana from September 25 to October 3 this year.
About Bathukamma 
  • Bathukamma means ‘Goddess of Life’ and is celebrated during Dussehra.
  • Women decorate a special pot with seasonal flowers, fill the pot with offerings to the goddess, go in a procession, and later immerse the pot in a local pond.
  • This 9-day festival is celebrated based on Sathavahana calendar and it usually falls on September or October, during the latter half of monsoon, before the onset of winter.
  • This festival begins with Mahalaya Amavasya, also known as Engili Poola Bathukamma.
  • During the first seven days of this festival, women make symbolic images of Bodemma (Goddess Gauri) using clay and small Bathukammas.
  • The final day of this festival, called Saddula Bathukamma, involves the preparation of huge Bathukammas on a special plate and womenfolk singing and dancing around it.
  • Bathukammas are then taken out in a procession to be immersed a river or any nearby waterbody.
  • The flowers used in Bathukamma are capable of purifying water in ponds and tanks.
  • The festival concludes a day before the Dasara Festival.
  • The Union Ministry of Culture has announced that this festival would be celebrated at the India Gate for the first time.
Source- India Today 

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