The South India Times Mulugu : Adivasi culture meeting was held in Mulugu district center under the chairmanship of division president Siddhaboina Sarveswara Rao. In this meeting, Adivasi Rights Struggle State President Vattam Upender said that the festival celebrated in association with the culture-customs-traditions-nature of the adivasis is known as Kothala (Peddala) festival. In the first leg of Uttara Karti, a festival will be held on 14, 15-09-2022 on Wednesday and Thursday with tribal customs and traditions. Early in the morning, intillipadi gets up and cleans the entrance of the house and bathes the head, the Peramaiya (priest) of the village deities returns to the house with doli instruments, deposits salla and ambali and pours salla ambali in the four directions of the village outside the village with arches. In the evening, newly harvested grains, rice, and chicken are sacrificed to the household altars and it is prayed that there should be a feast.
Pethars (elders) in the house prepare the festival with fresh grains, milk and sugar. In the case of the death of the elders in the house, in order to give full rights to the new bride and groom as their descendants, the mother hen is tied to the Nisani Mogara in this sanyamu room of the house and according to the tradition, as many gumbas in the house as many gumbas in the house, payasam is poured in the Ippa Sara Ippa Aku doppa. They kill the chicken by burning the sari and beating the chicken to and fro in the temple, asking for a leave of absence. The chicken is cut into pieces and cooked separately and served to all the members of the clan with permission. Everyone eats after asking for leave with the word Sanarthi (holiday). Traditionally cooked food is not served to others.
A newly married girl leaves her natal gottu and gotras and is transferred to her husband’s gottu and gotras. In that order, none of the customs and traditional affairs of his mother and the house are valid the next morning, we come and offer alms in the name of the elders and elders and feel like the festival of the elders (Kothala) is over. Therefore, the Adivasi Rights Struggle Samithi demands the government respect such sacred tribal culture, traditions, and customs and declare an official holiday for two days. He said. District Secretary Chitti Babu, District Vice President Chinta Somaraju, and District Leaders Kuchinti Chiranjeevi were involved in this program. Others participated.
