Atla Tadde


Atla Taddi is a traditional festival celebrated by married Hindu women of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for the health and long life of their husbands. It occurs on the 3rd night after the full moon in Aswiyuja month of Telugu calendar, and falls in either September or October in the Gregorian calendar.
It is the Telugu equivalent of Karva Chauth, which is celebrated by north Indian women the following day.

The Ritual

Telugu woman mark Atla Taddi by keeping a day-long fast without food or water. In the evening, women perform pooja, and after looking at the moon, they break the fast by having tiny atlu.
Following are customs in some places of Andhra Pradesh, India:
On this day, Some have a custom of preparing atlu and keep those as offering to goddess Gowri, and after they will be distributed to relatives, neighbors as vaayanam. For each muttayduvu. The ceremony includes 11 ladies who already took this vayanam and if your menatta took this vayanam the rituals continues. To all these 11 ladies you give each 11 atlu with deepam you offer each lady the vayanam by holding with your sarees palluor kongu... you utter these words

...istinamma vanayam
...puchukunna amma vayanam
...mummatiki ichindamma vayanam andinchinamma vayanam
...mummatiki muttindamma vayanam andindamma vayanam
...vayanam puchukunna vanita evaro
...ne ne namma gowri parvati

and they then break the fast along with you by having all the dishes made and some also make sweet called pootarekulu and they also eat the deepam and take home those atlu and eat later with family members.
Pooja ceremony:
People sing folk songs like atla taddi aaratloi, mudda pappu mudatloi,....