Bathukamma Festival is a nine-day festival in Telangana. For this festival, Women come together and play around the bathukamma all the nine days. During the festival, beautiful flower stacks are arranged in several concentric layers in the shape of a temple. The festival is celebrated in the month of September or October, when the flowers are in full bloom, this a spectacular and colourful floral festival.
Each day of the festival has its own name:

Day 1: Engili pula Bathukamma

Day 2: Atukula Bathukamma

Day 3: Muddapappu Bathukamma

Day 4: Nanabiyyam Bathukamma

Day 5: Atla Bathukamma

Day 6: Aligina Bathukamma

Day 7: Vepakayala Bathukamma

Day 8: Vennamuddala Bathukamma

Day 9: Saddula Bathukamma

The actual story behind this festival is:
Our favourite is the one about King Dharmangada. Dharmangada was a Chola Dynasty King who used to rule South India. His rule came at a high cost - he and his wife had a hundred sons who all died in battle. The King and his wife prayed to the Goddess Lakshmi for one more child. Lakshmi answered the prayers and the royal family were blessed with a baby daughter, who they named Lakshmi. This is the reason for the name Bathukamma, which means 'Mother Goddess come alive'. The baby girl liked flowers, which is why Bathukamma is celebrated with flowers, many of which have medicinal purposes.
The festival is also dedicated to Goddess Parvati as it is believed that the Goddess Sati returned as Goddess Parvati on Bathukamma.

свернуть