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How To Observe Mangala Gowri Puja
How To Observe Mangala Gowri Puja
PS: Generally, this Maida Gowri is done with milk (not with water) on the
previous day with madi sari or silk sari( with upasa-empty stomach ) so as to
get dry for the next day.
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Take a Big Mane (peeta) and clean it. Put Astadala padma rangoli in center.
Take one blouse piece and drape on mane.Keep the peeta on the floor at the
center of pooja place preferably facing east or North direction.
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Take another similar mane and drape it with another blouse piece
and keep it vertical to the wall on this 1st mane.
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A cobra cut in to two pieces one half each and filled with 16 adike
and
kept on 16 beetle leaf is placed on both sides of the silver thatte.
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A large piece of jaggery (the four corner one) is kept at the side of
the
kalasha.
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Now u can place the five pyramid shape Mangala Gowri made from Maida
and turmeric powder on the four corners of the jaggery and one Turmeric
Gowri (called dakshayini) in center - on the top of Jaggeri.
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You can also put a garland made from cotton thread (gejje-vastra)
or
flowers on the pyramid or idol.
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A Ganapathi Idol Silver will come in the front most of the plate.
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Now put rangooli all around the peetha and place deepada kambha
at the either side of peetha.
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At the center, put little big rangoli any thing with round shape. There are lot of
rangoli castings available(like flowers, leaf,Lines, etc.,) in shops also. You can
use them as well.
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Other pooja items like panchapatre, uddarane, arghya patre, neerige chambu,
udina kaddi, karpoora, halagaarathi, Ghante, and pooja book –mangalagowri
vrata, panchamrita (milk, curds, ghee, honey, sugar and fresh coconut water),
aarathi has to be kept ready for pooja.
• Keep aasanas ready for purohitaru and your self. (bidi chape or
Mane-peeta).
• Please avoid using any steel items for pooja. As far as possible it
should be silver, copper, or kanchu
Last Tuesday (that is 4th or 5th week) – Please note -16 Gulpapde unde to be
kept in a new Chambu or vessel or silver chambu decorated with flower and
sunna and to be given to Mother as taambula. Fifth year the same to be given
along with Seere(Sari).
• Pl. take care to see that gowri is soaked in turmeric on a periodical
basis so as not to develop crack.
The Puja Begins
Purohitaru will conduct pooja. Give him upayana dana andtambula.
purohitaru will
leave.
After the pooja, take mogache kai and rub it with beetle leaf. The juice of beetle leaf will stick to
moghache kai. Lit all the sixteen deepas and start singing the mangalagowri haadu. Normally
sung by elders/atte(Mother-inLaw)in the family. By the end of the song, now the kaajal is made.
atte will comb the hair of the daugher-in-law and she will give flowers to her (Hoova mudisuvaru).
Now do the aarathi with this same 16 deepas to devi. Then regular two
deepa-tuppada-
deepa aarthi,
Now give kaajal to all suvasinis who are invited for pooja and give them arishina kumkuma,
deepa(one deepa each) and flowers with tengina kayi taambula and dakshine. Do the namaskara
for suvasini and elders. Have prasadam. – No Eat-outs please.
End of the five weeks, you have to give these blouse pieces to five suvasinis during
Swarna-Gowri festival