The four-day Sammakka Saralamma Festival, celebrated in Medaram, Telangana, has commenced, marking Asia’s largest tribal festival honoring the Hindu Tribal goddesses.
About Sammakka Saralamma Festival:
- Also Sammakka Sarakka Jatara and Medaram Jatara, it is a festival to honour the Hindu Tribal goddesses, celebrated in the state of Telangana, India.
- It is the largest tribal fair in Asia, and the second-largest fair in India, after the Kumbh Mela.
- It commemorates Sammakka and Saralamma, a mother and daughter, who fought an unjust law with reigning rulers.
- The rituals related to the Goddesses are entirely conducted by the Koya Tribe priests, by Koya customs and traditions.
- Tribal take a holy dip in the red water of Jampanna Vagu (a tributary to River Godavari).
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