Sankranthi, the most revered festival by farmers. Its so because it is the time when the farmers would complete their harvesting and would enjoy the crops.
I could say that Sankranthi and Ugadi are the two most important festivals of Hindu karnataka. The same festival is celebrated as Sankrathi in Andra pradesh and Pongal in Tamil Nadu.
Though i have very less knowledge on how this festival is celebrated, i would like to recollect those past years or decades when we used to celebrate this..
Early morning we used to wake up and get ready. After that there will be a pooja and then the yellu-bella will be shared. Actually i had heard once that yellu-bella would generate the heat required to control the cold outside.
After that the nice itikida bele saaru and many other things will be prepared which are solely for this purpose only.
By Evening, we used to normally have the Danagala meravanige( cattle procession) where all the cattle would be decorated with all those colorful items on their skins and coloring their horns. Each of them would be looking so marvellous. As the dark of the night covers the village , all the cattle would come back to the village. There will be fire lit up and all the cattle have to jump over them. They say that it would reduce the bad eye on the cattle. Once that is over, everyone will go back home and enjoy the nice food once again
this is what i know abt sankrathi.....our festivals have lost their soul long back....
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