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Bathukamma

For nine days the women of Telangana build towers of wild flowers, sing around them and float them on water.

A picture of Batukamma , celebrated in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh .
Photo: Randhirreddy at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What happens

Bathukamma is the flower festival of Telangana, kept by women for nine days before Dussehra. Each afternoon they build a bathukamma, a cone of flowers stacked in rings on a brass plate, one colour to a layer. The flowers are the wild ones of the season, gathered from field edges. In the evening the women set their stacks down together, sing and clap in a circle around them, then carry them to a pond or tank and set them afloat. The last day, Saddula Bathukamma, has the largest stacks.

The flowers

CelosiaGunugu, the silvery pink spikes of wild cockscomb.Aztec marigoldBanti, marigold, for bands of orange and yellow.ChrysanthemumChamanti, added in the upper rings.Sacred lotusA lotus is sometimes set on top.

Also part of it, and being written: Senna auriculata (Tangedu, the yellow flower that is the base of every stack.).

More flowers and customs of Bathukamma

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About this page

Original text by the EveryPhool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Bathukamma" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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