An inscription dating back to the reign of Vijayanagara ruler Krishnadevaraya has provided the earliest known epigraphical reference to the Bonalu festival in present-day Telangana, offering valuable historical evidence of the antiquity of the popular folk festival, according to Director of Epigraphy at Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) K.
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