Mysuru/ Madikeri: Huthri or Puthari festival was celebrated with grandeur and traditional fervour in Mysuru and Kodagu districts yesterday. It is a festival of harvest and getting the harvested paddy crop home, highlighting the relationship between mother earth and man.
Kodavas and members of Kodagu Gowda community visited paddy fields in a procession in their traditional attire and harvested the crop after offering prayers. The festival is observed either in the month of November or December on full moon day of Rohini Nakshatra. Before harvesting, they chanted slogans ‘Poli Poli Deva,’ fired three times in the air and burst crackers.
