Medaram Samakka Saralamma Jatara is going to start from 17th February to 20th Febraury 2016 also known as Medaram jathara for the year 2016 or Samakka Sarakka Jathara 2016 the dates of Medaram Jatara 2016 are finalized for 2016. Samakka Saralamma Jathara or sammakka sarakka jatara is a tribal Festival celebrated in Medaram village in tadvai madal warangal district in the state of Telengana, India. Medaram Jathara will take place in Tadvai Mandal Warangal District of newly formaed telanagana state. this year Millions of devotees will be gathered at Medaram at the time of Medaram Jatara 2016. Actually Medaram is a remote place in the Etunagaram Wildlife Sanctuary a part of Dandakaranya the largest surviving forest belt in the Deccan area. Devotees who come to Sammakka saralamma jatara 2016 will offer Bangaram,Bellam,Gold Jaggery to the godess sammakka sarakka of their own weight to the goddesses and after that they take holy bath in Jampanna Vagu near by the venue.This festival is one of the festival which is celebrated with no Brahmis and a tribal guru will take care of all the jatara
Telangana Government is organizing Medaram Jathara 2016 during the dates of 17th February 2016 to 20th February 2016 as per the information by the telanagan minister. Best arrangements are taking place as this is the first time the jatara is going to take care after the formation of new state telangana .about 20 million visitors to the Jathara are expected to come from different states of india and different districts of Telangana.It is well known that this tribal festival or Medaram jathara or Samakka Sarakka Jathara is the largest human congregation at a single place and second largest after kumbha mela.This time Medaram Jathara is being celebrated for the first time after the formation of telengana State and in near view of Telangana chief minister KCR(Kalvakuntla chandrasekhar rao). For the arrangements to the visitors and devotees many Crores of rupeeswill be spent by the Telangana Government this time for facilities like water, shelter, bathing sheds, transportation,Parking,traffic,garbage collection,drinking water below is the schedule of Medaram jatara 2016 or sammakka sarakka jatara 2016 this time
Day 1 of Medaram jatara 2016(February 17th 2016) – Sarakka or Saralamma Goddess to be brought to Gadhhe from Kannepalli.
Day 2 of Medaram jatara 2016 (February 18th 2016) – Samakka to be brought to Gaddhe from Chilakalammagutta.
Day 3 of Medaram jatara 2016 (February 19th 2016) – Millions of people can worship Samakka and Saralamma on same Gaddhe.
Day 4 of Medaram jatara 2016 (February 20th 2016) – Idols of Goddesses to be taken back to the forest.
The above schedule will be followed for 2016 Medaram jathara or sammakkka saralamma jatara .Regarding this medaram jatara 2016 DGP Anurag Sharma and Intelligence IG B Shivadhar Reddy visited the place and reviewed the ongoing arrangements for the Samaka Saraka Jathara 2016 or Medaram Jatara 2016. Previously in combined andhrapradesh Ap government used to conduct the Medaram jathara this is the first time Telangana Government is conducting for the first time in the history so it is taken more care than before to make it a grand success as its a Telangana Jathara .This time DGP already inspected all the arrangements like Traffic routes and the parking places provided bathing ghats at jampanna vagu for the visitors or devotees of godess and visiting jathara. This Medaram Jathara is about 100 kilo Metres away from Warangal district head quaters. This time TSRTC is going to runs special buses or Medaram Jathara Special buses from all the cities Hdyerabad,Warangal,Nizamabad,Adilabad,Khajipet,Janagaon,Karimnagar Online reservation for ticket booking for medaram jathara is also available for the passengers to Medaram jathara 2016. During the Medaram Jatara days all the four days TSRTC will provides bus facility from all the areas of Hyderabad and the districts of telangana and other staes in india foreigners also visit the Jathara its such a famous jathara .
How to Reach Medaram Sammakka Saralamma Jatara Medaram Jathara or sammakka Saralamma Jathara
Madaram is a tiny village which is located in the forest area in warangal district Madaram village comes under Warangal district in Telangana Region or Telangana State in Tadvai mandal which is in Warangal district Telangana ,India below are the distance from different places to Medaram jathara
Distance from Hyderabad to Medaram is around 250 Kms.
Distance from Warangal or Hanmakonda to Medaram Jathara is around 105 Kms.
TSRTC Buses from Hyderabad, Warangal, Khazipet,Nizamabad,Karimnagar,Adilabad and Janagam and many places from in and around Telanagana and from Many states in india runs most frequently buses . TSRTC is planning to arrange bus From Hyderabad for every 20 minutes buses are runs from Uppal, MGBS(Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station), Jagadgiri Gutta, BoraBanda and JBS. This time TSRTC also providing online reservation facility for Madaram Sammakka Sarakka Jatara 2016 you can book your ticket for Medaram jathara on jathara special buses on www.tsrtconline.in
Medaram Sammakka Saralamma Jatara or Sammaka Sarakka Jathara History
Actually There are many Stories told about the miraculous powers of sammakka saralamma jampanna and the Medaram jathara. As according to a tribal story which is about 6-7 centuries ago it is told that is in 13th century some tribal leaders with there team who went for a hunting in the forest found a new born girl (Sammakka) in the forest emitting enormous light around her playing amidst with tigers around.
So when the tribal leaders saw it they took Sammakka to their habitation and gave to the head of the tribals. The head of the tribal adopted sammakka and brought up as a chief tain among the tribals and later She later became the saviour of the tribals of the region in and around that area sammakka was married to Pagididda Raju a feudatory tribal chief of Kakatiyas dynasty (who ruled the country of Andhra from Warangal City between 1000 AD and 1380 AD who is famous at that time).She was blessed with 2 daughters and one son namely Saralamma/Sarakka,Nagulamma and son named Jampanna for sammakka
After some years there was a severe drought in the area that lasted for years and as a result the mighty Godavari River dried up and people in the tribal area are not able to pay tax to kakatiyas. the king of Medaram at that time pagedde Raju also didn’t pay tribute to King Pratapa Rudra and Pratapa rudra was angry on it so In turn king Pratapa rudra sent his army to subdue the tribals and collect the tribute from the tribals as tribals are not able to pay the tribute. A War was fought between tribal chief pagidde Raju and Kakatiya army on the banks of Jampanna Vagu which is now called or “Sampenga Vagu” at that time The Koya army fought valiantly but could not with stand the well equipped Kakatiya army as they used all the weapons they have. Though fought valiantly Pagididda Raju the king of tribals and his daughters Saralamma/Sarakka, other daughter Nagulamma, Pagididda Raju Son in law Govinda Raju husband of Saralamma/Sarakka lost their lives in the battle with the kakatiya army . Later Jampanna son of Sammakka died in Sampenga Vagu which is now renamed as Jampanna Vagu in the memory of his heroic fight against well trained Kakatiya army at the war between tribals and kakatiya army
When Sammakka hearing this news about the heroic deaths of Jampanna son of Sammakka Sammakka also entered the war and fought and caused lot of damage to kakatiya army though they were well equiped with weapons. Kakatiya army Surprised by her Bravery And Valour the Kakatiya Prime Minister visited war ravaged Koya kingdom with proposal of peace and offered Sammakka a place in the emperor’s harem as the chief queen of their kingdom .Samakka turned down the offer and resolved to continue the fight to avenge the deaths of thir tribes the battle continued and Sammakka was seriously wounded by kakatiya army. So lastly with the wounds Samakka told her people tribes that as long as they remembered her she would protect them. Sammakka then cursed the Kaktiya dynasty to perish And with that wounded body proceeded towards Chilakala gutta and disappeared in the forest near by medaram.
After the war and the disapperence of Samakka the grieving Koyas searched for their queen sammakka all the forest and they found a red ochre box a container of vermilion her bangles and the pug marks of a huge full grown tigress at exactly the same place where she was found as a infant by the koyas leaders when they gave to the tribal leader. With the curse of Sammakka the Kakatiya dynasty came to an end from then the Koyas and the tribals and many other Indian tribes and castes have been holding festivals in memory of Sammakka and Sarakka regularly as Medaram jathara or Sammakka Saralamma Jathara or Sammakka Sarakka jathara .
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