Hyderabad Bonalu | bonalu celebrations | Pochamma goddess | Culture manifested | predominant nature

Bonalu means 'Food' and is a ritual in honor of mother goddess-Mahankali.
The ritual consists of an offering of food made to the goddess by women which is later shared by the family and friends as 'PRASAD'. The festival is a month long affair and includes colourful processions and community feasts. It begins at "ASHADA MASAM"(July/August) and there are special pooja are done for yallamma Devi at the first to last day of the festival.

IT STARTE FROM " SUNDAY, 7 TH JULY AND IT ENDS SUNDAY, 28 TH JULY.
Importance and significance of bonalu which is celebrated in telangana region here on bhakti. Bonalu has a grand history of 200years. Appaiah and his associates  went to the mahankali temple in vijain and prayed that if people were saved from this 'PLAGUE DISEASE', they would install   the idol of mahankali in Secunderabad. On there return, they installed a wooden idol of the goddess in Secunderabad in July 1815. This was replaced with a stone statue in 1964.

The word bonam is a contraction of the word 'Bhojanam', a Sanskrit loan word which means a meal or a fest in Telugu, is an offering to mother goddess. Women prepare rice cooked with milk, jaggery in a new brass or earthen pot adorned with neem leaves, turmeric, vermilion and a lit lamp on the top of the pot.

Bonalu involves the worship of mother goddess in regional forms like mysamma, pochamma, yellamma, poleramma, meremma, nkokalamma.
Bonalu is a Hindu festival celebrated by all over Telangana.

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