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Bathukamma · samagri
Bathukamma puja samagri list
20 things to set out for Bathukamma. The first 6 are pictured here; the whole list, pictured, with what each is for and a list that ticks off, is in the Kalava app.
A tambalam, or a sibbi, and a smaller plateA wide brass tambalam or a bamboo sibbi for the big Bathukamma, and a smaller plate for the small one. Any wide plate will do.
New clothesNew clothes for the evenings. A daughter home for the festival wears the pattu saree from her mother's house.
Turmeric for GaurammaTwo or three tablespoons of turmeric each evening, made into a paste from which Gauramma is shaped: a small cone.
Haldi, kumkum and agarbattiFor the home shrine each afternoon, and for the vempali branch where the village plants one. A diya beside them.
Rice flour for the mugguTo draw the muggu where the Bathukamma stands.
Small diyas and oil, for SaddulaOne or two for each Bathukamma on the last evening: diyas of flour filled with oil where the house makes them, or small clay ones.
And 14 more
- Engili Pula's naivedyam
- Poha, dal and jaggery
- Dal, milk and jaggery
- Rice to soak and grind
- Rice and urad for the atlu
- Rice flour, sesame and ajwain
- Sesame, butter and jaggery
- For the five saddulu
- For the malida and the sattu pindi
- Tangedu and gunugu
- The season's flowers
- Pumpkin leaves and flowers
- Cow-dung water
- A vempali branch