Female Police Geo-Znamní a child from a family in Bengalur, who arrived in Punganur in the Chittoor district for the Sugututura of the Jatar Gang on Wednesday.
More than two devotees of Lakh from all over southern India were punganur and took part in the two -day annual “Suguturu Gangamma Jatar” festival, which closed on Wednesday.
The festival has a sponsorship of family members of the former Punganar Zamindars, who came up with gifts on the behavior of the Jatera in a big way. Hundreds of families carrying the Zamindari system and settled elsewhere in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Telangana to Punganur at the invitation of his relatives.
The Jatara, which falls among the Holi and Ugadi festivals, symbolizes religious harmony in the region, while people of different religions join Slavků.
City officials, police, Andhra Pradesh Southern Distribution Company Limited (APSPDCL) and income departments for the festival have taken sophisticated measures. Meanwhile, local people in large numbers joined to provide “Annadanam” devoted to arterial intersections of Punganur.
The descendants of the families of the Zamindari, the Somaskekar Chikkarayal and Mallikarjun Chikkarayal, along with the city commissioner Madhusudhan Reddy and other local leaders who were in the Gangamma temple who were in Palece Zamindar. The whole city was illuminated by traditional works of art.
According to history, the former Punganur Zamindars were migrants who came to Punganur in the 16th century from Sugutur in the Karnataka region and considered the goddess Gangamma his family deity. The legend says that when the idol of the sugututura gangamma, the car carrying the idol, was the current place in Punganur, where the deity was dedicated, followed by the construction of a massive palace.
The highlight of the Jatera is that the idol of the goddess will remain in the Zamindar Palace all year round and is eliminated to the procession only once, to celebrate the annual festival. During the other days the temple will be closed. The Idol procession, which started on Tuesday evening, was closed on Wednesday after the ceremony.
The devotees took various promises, including the offer of prayer bearing traditional “gerigalu” (a form of a vessel carried on the head) and among other animals. The organizers believe that the festival is a manifestation of eight forms of the goddess Gangamma, known as “Ashta Gangammas” found in different parts of the Chittoor district.
Meanwhile, at the end of the celebrations on Wednesday, when the helicopter deployed to place the helicopter into the gangamma idol petals at the end of the celebration, flew at low height and pandal in the impact of the wind from the gangamma windows flew with little failure. No persons were injured, the officials reported.
Published – 26 March 2025 17:07
