Tribal festival Medaram Jatara begins today Medaram (Warangal): Asia's biggest tribal biennial fair Sammakka-Saralamma Jatara will begin at Medaram village on Wednesday .The fair will conclude on February 20. Lakhs of people from Telangana, AP , Odisha, MP and Chhattisgarh participate in the four-day event, which is being observed as a state festival by the Telangana government. Incidentally , this is the first Sammakka-Saralamma Jatara after the formation of the new Telangana state.
Saralamma, the daughter of Sammakka, will arrive from Kannepally village on Wednesday along with Pagididderaju and Govindaraju, heralding the beginning of the fair. Tribal priests will perform special rituals to goddess Saralamma and put the deity on a platform. On Thursday , Sammakka will arrive at the platform from Chilukalagutta late in the night.After the arrival of the deity , lakhs of pilgrims will offer jaggery (locally called Bangaram or gold) blocks to Sammakka and Saralamma.Sammakka-Saralamma will stay on the platform for the darshan. About one crore pilgrims will offer prayers to the deities. Late on Saturday , tribal priests will take back the deities to the local forest marking the conclusion of the festival. -- Learn More about AYUSH online at : http://www.adiyuva.in/2013/10/ayush.html --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AYUSH | adivasi yuva shakti" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adiyuva+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to adiyuva@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/adiyuva. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adiyuva/4f92e5f4-c5a5-49c8-b640-965dde063429%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
