Kadalekayi Parishe

Karnataka is a state where fairs and festivals are intimately related with its people. Karnataka cannot be read in isolation without its occasions and festivals. The Kadalekayi Parishe festival is among those festivals which are celebrated by people of different religion with joy and merriment.

The fairs and festivals of Karnataka have a significance of its own. These festivals also help to build a fellow feeling and brotherhood among the people. Festivals reflect the cultural background of a community. The Kadalekayi Parishe festival is one of that kind which is being practiced by the farmers and replicates a traditional way of worshiping by them.

The Kadalekayi Parishe of Karnataka is popularly known as the groundnut festival in Karnataka. The Kadalekayi Parishe festival is basically a welcome ceremony celebrated by the farmers to welcome the first yield of the groundnut crop. The farmers come every year to pray in the Bull Temple every year to get the blessings of the God for good harvest.

The Kadalekayi Parishe festival of Karnataka is held during the months of November-December when the crop is harvested. The reason behind such celebration is to get the blessings for good cultivation and harvest. Heaps of groundnuts spring up all around the Bull Temple. Even different qualities of groundnuts also grow near the shrine of the Dodda Ganesha and in the surrounding of the Bugle Rock Park in Basavanagudi.

The Kadalekayi Parishe festival is celebrated with extreme dedication with the hope to get the favor of God which will lead the farmers towards prosperity.