Monday, September 19, 2011

BATHUKAMMA FESTIVAL

IMPORTANCE OF BATHUKAMMA FESTIVAL
Bathukamma is an icon which gives special recognition for 
Telangana girl. This is the important , significant festival celebrated in  Telangana region.  The festival has the back drop of the country and cultivation culture.
        
          It is the festival for feminine felicitation, so as  to give them enough courage to cope with the multi faced evils in the society around us.  It enhances their inner caliber and to prove that the female is not the feeble race.  The women are equivalent and some times more courageous and worthy talented in war fare than men as the Godess Durga killed Mahishasura a notorious demon  and praised by the mighty male Gods like Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma, Indra and others.

            So Bathukamma has been worshipped as the Goddess Gowri as like as Goddess Durga worshipped by the Bengalis for nine nights as Devi nava rathris here in Telangana region.

        Bathukamma is prepared with nearby easily available colourful flowers especially the flora called natively as Thangedu,Gunugu, Banthi, Chamanthi and others keeping them row by row make a pyramid shaped flower bouquet and worship it as the Goddess Parwathi.  The flowers are of golden yellow colour give the girls a festive gaiety and boost their aesthetic and creativity skills.  The festival harmonize the girls/women with the feminine society when they sing and dance along with the groups of women/girls in large cirlcle every day evening till late night for eight days from Mahalaya Amavasya the  dark moon to Durgashtami. The festival improves the relation between the ladies and enhance communal relation.

         The sweet dishes that they offer to the Goddess in these days as Naivedyam (meal) are so vital and good supplement diet which enriched with minerals and vitamins, that the Institute of Nutriton recommended the same formula as nutritious supplement for growing up children especially the female and more beneficial for mal nutritious ones.


         This Bathukamma festival brings  the market a boom in all aspects and promotes all sales of fancy goods in  particular. It is the good opportunity for guys to gaze at the huge crowds of beautiful women and gorgeous ladies gathering at a place dozzles with the colour ful costumes, jewels and rich makeup so pleasant to watch is an un forget able and endearing.

          However the Bathukamma festival is an  auspicious  and mighty festival which observed with traditional and cultural spiritual heritage. The divine commitment which keeping the tradition alive from generation to generation in this region of Telangana.  

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