Jyeshtha Gauri · puja vidhi

How to do the Jyeshtha Gauri puja at home

Gauri comes on Anuradha, is fed on Jyeshtha, and leaves on Mula.

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.

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Bring her in at dusk
Day one, on Anuradha. She is carried from the door and stopped at each room, asked where she is putting her feet, and answered for.
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Draw her footprints
In rangoli or kumkum, from the doorway to the seat she will keep for three days — beside Bappa.
Continue in the Kalava app · free to read
The other 6 steps of the Jyeshtha Gauri 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.
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1. Seat her and dress her
2. The full meal, on the middle day
3. Call the suvasinis
4. Sing in front of her
5. Send her back on Mula
6. Keep what she leaves
These 6 steps are in the app

In Karnataka the mother comes a day before her son as Swarna Gauri, which is why the festival there is Gauri-Ganesha together.