Chaitra Navratri · puja vidhi

How to do the Chaitra Navratri puja at home

The spring nine nights; the Vikram new year begins.

Every step is named here and the first 3 are given whole. The whole puja, every mantra with its meaning, is in the Kalava app.

7:22 AM · Columbus
Ghatasthapana on the first morning
A pot of water with a coconut on it, and barley sown in earth beside it, set in the north-east corner of the shrine.
7:07 AM · Columbus
Keep the diya through the nine
An akhand diya is lit at ghatasthapana and not allowed to go out until the ninth night.
Continue in the Kalava app · free to read
The other 4 steps of the Chaitra Navratri puja, whole
Every step with its drawing, every mantra in your own script with its meaning, at your town's own hour, and the samagri each step needs. With a membership, the pandit says each step aloud and waits for your hands.
Point your iPhone's camera here.
1. One form each day
2. Eat the vrat's food
3. Eat the neem on the first day
4. Kanya pujan on the eighth or ninth
These 4 steps are in the app

The same first day is Ugadi in the Deccan and Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra — the new year under another name.