POTHARAJU – THE SAVIOUR

BONALU is an important festival of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, where the ladies offer Rice – Milk with Jaggery in a pot to mother Yellamma ( Mahakali) for four weeks in July every year. The devotees believe that while carrying the pots full of rice etc. on their head , the evil power ( The Demon ) may attack them. They need some protection and Potharaju who is thought to be the brother of Ma Yellamma protects  them from any evil power. Here one such Potharaju on the road of Hyderabad.