page_title: Sadar (festival)
section_title: Buffalo Salam
hierarchical_section_title: Sadar (festival) / Festival Highlights / Buffalo Salam
caption_attribution_description: English: Buffalo Salute
context_page_description: Sadar is a buffalo carnival celebrated annually by the Yadav community of Hyderabad, Telangana, India as a part of Diwali. It is also known as Dunnapothula panduga and it occurs on the second day after Diwali.
  The buffaloes are decorated with garlands of flowers, painted horns, and paraded through the streets, often accompanied by the crowd dancing to the sounds of teen maar Special Yadav Band. The animals are sometimes encouraged to rear up on their hind legs.
  Sadar was started by the late Sri Salandri Nyayam Chowdhary Mallaiah Yadav in 1946 at Naryanguda YMCA, Hyderabad. Even though over time Sadars have been organized in many other localities of Hyderabad by their respective Chowdhary, Narayanguda YMCA Sadar attracts largest crowd due to its history and popularity. Hence is called Pedha Sadar. Narayanguda YMCA Sadar has been organized uninterruptedly annually starting 1946 till date by its founder late Sri Salandri Nyayam Chowdhary Mallaiah Yadav and later by his family members.
  Other notable locations where Sadar is conducted are Deepak Talkies, Saidabad, Ameerpet and Kairthabad.
context_section_description: Some families also make their buffalo to do salam and dandam to show respect and obedience to Chowdary. Families train their buffalos for months to perform these two types of salutes. In the end it displays the agility of buffalo to be able to stand on their hind legs alone.
caption: Buffalo Salute - Buffalo is made to stand on hind legs which looks like it is saluting
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