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Kartik Puja · puja vidhi

How to do the Kartik Puja puja at home

Kartik Thakur on the last evening of Kartik: a couple's puja for a child, from dusk to dawn. 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.

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The puja at dusk with every offering and the katha, then the puja and the katha again at the prahars of the night, and the farewell at dawn.

Kartik Puja

Dusk · Kartik Thakur's puja

5:15 PM · Columbus

The place made ready, the dhyana and the avahan, the offerings and the child's things, the bhog, the vratkatha, the anjali and the pranam.

  1. Dusk

    Kartik Thakur's place

    1. Husband and wife bathe and put on clean clothes before sunset.
    2. On a low stool spread a red cloth, and sprinkle a little sun-dried rice, durva and Ganga jal on it.
    3. Seat Kartik Thakur's murti or picture on the cloth — the little Kartik left at your door, if one came.

    The puja is the couple's together; the vratkatha itself tells of a husband and wife who kept it.

    Kartik Thakur's place

  2. Dusk

    The alpana and the lotus

    1. Before Kartik Thakur draw a round alpana with rice paste.
    2. Draw an eight-petalled lotus in it and, if you have them, set a few sprouted paddy grains or new paddy ears around it.

    The vratkatha's women set Kartik in an eight-petalled lotus drawn on ground adorned with paddy sprouts.

    The alpana and the lotus

  3. Dusk

    The ghat

    1. Set a brass, bell-metal or clay pot on the alpana and fill it with water and a little Ganga jal.
    2. Draw a swastika on it with sindoor, put five mango leaves in its mouth, and set a green coconut with its stalk on them.
    3. Cover the coconut with a red gamchha.
    The ghat
    1. Seated before Kartik Thakur · achaman
    2. The diya
    3. Ganesh ji first
    4. The sankalp
    5. The dhyana
    6. Avahan · Kartik Thakur invited
    7. Seat, water for the feet and the hands
    8. The bath
    9. The dhoti
    10. Chandan and akshat
    11. Flowers and paddy
    12. Dhoop and the diya
    13. The child's things
    14. The bhog
    15. Paan and supari
    16. The vratkatha
    17. The anjali
    18. The pranam
    19. The aarti
    20. Kshama prarthana
    21. The prasad

    These 21 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

The night · at each prahar

8:15 PM · Columbus

Kartik Thakur offered puja again, and the katha heard again, about every three hours.

    1. The puja at each prahar
    2. The vratkatha

    These 2 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

Dawn · the farewell

7:19 AM · Columbus

A last offering, the pranam, and the clay murti given to the water.

    1. The morning offering
    2. Kartik Thakur bid farewell

    These 2 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

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