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Igas Bagwal (Budhi Diwali) · puja vidhi
How to do the Igas Bagwal (Budhi Diwali) puja at home
Garhwal's Diwali of the eleventh day: pakwan for the devtas, a pinda and a garland for the cattle, and the bhailo swung at night. About 60 minutes.
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.
The house, the pakwan offered to the devtas, the cattle bathed and honoured with the gwal-dhindi, the diyas, and the bhailo with the dance.

Morning · the house and the pakwan
7:23 AM–9:21 AM · ColumbusThe house cleaned, the pakwan cooked, and the first of it offered to the house's devtas and the pitars.
Morning
Clean the house
- Sweep and clean the house and the courtyard.
- Draw aipan at the door, and set a diya at its corners for the evening.

Morning
Cook the pakwan
- Cook the pakwan your house makes for Bagwal: arse and pue, swale, and pakodi.
- Keep the first of each aside for the devtas before anyone eats.

Morning
Offer the pakwan to the devtas
- At the house's place of the devtas, light a diya and dhoop.
- Offer the first of the pakwan before the devtas.
- Remember the pitars, and offer them a share as the house does.
- Fold your hands and bow.

Day · the cows and bullocks
9:21 AM–3:14 PM · ColumbusBathed, the horns oiled, tilak and a garland, dhoop and a diya, and the pinda of barley flour.
- Bathe the cows and bullocks
- Oil the horns, and apply tilak
- Garland them, with dhoop and a diya
- Feed the pinda
- The gwal-dhindi
- The rakhi to the calf's tail
These 6 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app
Sunset · the diyas
5:12 PM–5:41 PM · ColumbusDiyas at the threshold, through the house and at the devtas' place.
- Light the diyas
- Why Igas is on the eleventh day
These 2 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app
Night · the bhailo
5:41 PM–12:17 AM · ColumbusThe bundle of resinous pine lit and swung on its rope in the open ground, to the dhol and damau.
- Play the bhailo
- Dance to the dhol and damau
These 2 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app