MEDARAM JATARA

About: 

• Names: Medaram Jatara is also known as Sammakka Saralamma Jatara.
  
  
• What is it? It is a tribal festival honouring the fight of a mother and daughter, Sammakka and Saralamma, with the reigning rulers against an unjust law.
  
  
• Location:
  • It is celebrated in the state of Telangana. The Jatra begins at Medaram in Tadvai Mandal in Warangal district.
    
    
  • Medaram is a remote place in the Eturnagaram Wildlife Sanctuary, a part of Dandakaranya, the largest surviving forest belt in the region.
    
    
  
  
  
• When celebraeted? It is held every two years (biannually). It is celebrated during the time the goddesses of the tribals is believed to visit them.
  
  
• Ritual: People offer bangaram/gold (jaggery) of a quantity equal to their weight to the goddesses and take holy bath in Jampanna Vagu, a tributary to River Godavari.
  
  
• Significance: Many tribal Devotees from different states of India reach to the festive place to celebrate the Jatara.It is believed that after Kumbha Mela, the Medaram jatara attracts the largest number of devotees in the country.