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Fervour marks ‘Vooru Panduga’

— Photo: K.V. RAMANA

act of faith: A woman goes under a cradle (thotte) for a good omen in life in connection with the Voora Panduga in Nizamabad on Sunday.

NIZAMABAD: Gaiety and religious fervour marked the ‘Vooru Panduga’ (village festival) celebrated in the town on Sunday.

Residents of old town sacrificed goats and cocks at street corners and main junctions and performed pooja to village deities breaking coconuts and pumpkins everywhere.

The deities were taken out in a procession. Many people, a majority of them women, passed under a divine cradle praying the goddess to bless them and keep them protected from all ills and evils. Village priests went round the old town sprinkling ‘sari’, a kind of food made of jowar and mixed with animal blood, kumkum and turmeric. The belief is that people are protected from diseases if the ‘sari’ is spread over them.

The festival is celebrated every year during the rainy season and before the onset of Shravana masam beginning next month.

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