ROTTELA PANDUGA

 4. ROTTELA PANDUGA

          Rotiyaan ki Eid  or Rottela panduga is an annual three-day festival held at BARA SHAHEED DARGAH in Nellore. Annual event is observed in the month of Muharram as festival of 12 warriors sacrificed  their lives in battle with the British in 1751 near Gandavaram, Nellore. The beheaded bodies of those warriors were laid to rest at this place which came to be known as Bara Shaheed Dargah.

             The unique feature of the three-day festival is that devotees offer rottelu to the martyrs at the Bara Shaheed Dargah near Nellore tank, of their fulfilled desires and those similar wishes pick these up. It is widely believed that the warriors grant every wish or devotees offering prayers at that dargah.

         People  whose wishes for education, wealth, good health, job, etc., were fulfilled, come here to leave home made rottelu(roti or Indian bread) in  Nellore tank near Bara Shaheed Dargah. Those who have similar desires receive those rotis and eat them for fulling, their desires. If their wishes are fulfilled, they come to leave rotis at the same place next year.

               Many types of breads(ROTTELU) are being offered and searched for by devotees like Fortune bread ( bhagyam rotte), Marriage bread(pelli rotte), Job bread(udyogam rotte),children bread(santanam rotte), Health bread(arogyam rotte), Business bread (yeparam rotte),Foreign bread(videsi rotte)etc.,