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Kosta Andhra · Eastern Coastal Plains
त्योहार
| त्योहार | कब | क्या होता है |
|---|---|---|
| Sankranti | Mid-January, over three or four days | The region's largest festival by a distance. Bhogi fires of household discards, rice-flour muggu redrawn every morning, gangireddu bulls and haridasu singers at the door, new clothes, and a general return of everyone who works elsewhere. Cockfighting is a persistent Sankranti custom in the delta and courts have repeatedly restricted it. |
| Prabhala Teertham | Kanuma, the third day of Sankranti | Konaseema's own Sankranti observance. Village deities are mounted on prabhalu — tall bamboo-and-cloth frames, some of them enormous — and carried on men's shoulders across flooded paddy fields to a common ground, where the frames from many villages assemble. The route goes through the fields rather than along the road, which is the whole point. |
| Godavari and Krishna Pushkaram | Every twelve years each; the Godavari's next falls in 2027 | Twelve days of mass bathing when Jupiter enters the relevant sign — Leo for the Godavari, Virgo for the Krishna. Attendance runs to crores across the ghats at Rajahmundry, Vijayawada and the smaller river towns, and the state effectively rebuilds the riverfronts for it. |
| Vijayawada Dasara | Ashwina Navaratri (September–October) | Nine nights at the Kanaka Durga temple on Indrakeeladri, with the goddess presented in a different form each day and the theppotsavam float procession on the Krishna. Queues run down the hill and through the night. |
| Bhavani Deeksha | Kartika, concluding in November–December | A forty-one day vow taken in black clothing, ending with a mass visit to Vijayawada to give up the deeksha at the river. Participants number in the lakhs and the practice has grown very fast in recent decades. |
| Antarvedi Kalyanotsavam and rathotsavam | Magha (January–February) | The deity's marriage and chariot festival at the Vasishta Godavari mouth, drawing pilgrims from across both deltas to a village at the end of the road. |
| Rottela Panduga | Muharram, on the lunar calendar | At the Bara Shaheed dargah in Nellore, participants exchange rotis at the tank in fulfilment of a specific wish — one kind of bread for a marriage, another for a child, another for health — and Hindu and Muslim participants take part in comparable numbers. It is one of the largest shared observances on the Telugu coast. |
| Ugadi | Chaitra Shuddha Padyami (March–April) | The Telugu new year, marked by ugadi pachadi — six tastes in one preparation, eaten as an argument about the year ahead — and by a public almanac reading. |
Kosta Andhra का त्योहार कैलेंडर — क्या मनाया जाता है, कब पड़ता है और क्या होता है। (8)