Badagas Temple Ceremony







Badagas have been considered to be of dravidian origin. The leading scholars are strongly said that the badagas are natives of Nilgiris. They were completely an indigenous. Hence they celebrate their ceremony in their own style with tribe musical troop. The miscellaneous tunes were performed by them. This is an village situated around 3 kms from kethi. The function held for more than 3 hours. The village people are welcoming the goddess chariot by performing badagas dance and they placed a white dhoti sprayed with turmeric water in front of their respective houses. The goddess chariot comes to each and every house in the village and making pooja in front of their house and give prasad to them.

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