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Nagula Chavithi · puja vidhi

How to do the Nagula Chavithi puja at home

The Naga puja four days after Deepavali: Naga Devata offered puja at home, a little milk poured into the anthill, chalimidi and chimmili offered, and the vrat kept for the children. 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 threshold decked, the achaman, the Karkotaka verse, the toram for the children, the coconut at the putta and milk at the threshold on the way home.

Nagula Chavithi

Morning · Naga Devata at home

7:15 AM · Columbus

The oil bath, the vrat taken, the kalash on red cloth, and Naga Devata offered puja with the nine names.

  1. Morning

    The oil bath, and the vrat taken

    1. Rise early and take an oil bath.
    2. Put on clean clothes, red where the house keeps the day strictly.
    3. Sweep and wash the puja room.
    4. Take the vrat for the day in your heart: nothing to eat until night.
    The oil bath, and the vrat taken

  2. Morning

    The threshold and the door

    1. Apply turmeric and kumkum to the threshold.
    2. Tie a toranam on the door.
    3. Draw the muggu with chalk, not with rice flour, on this day.

    No fresh whitewash and no hole filled in house or field today: the day is the nagas'.

    The threshold and the door

  3. Morning

    The diya

    1. Light a diya of sesame oil in the puja room.
    2. Let the flame settle.
    3. Fold your hands and say the verse.
    Deepa · 2 lines
    दीपज्योतिः परब्रह्म दीपज्योतिर्जनार्दनः।dīpajyotiḥ parabrahma dīpajyotirjanārdanaḥ.The flame of the diya is the Supreme Brahman; the flame of the diya is Janardana.
    दीपो हरतु मे पापं दीपज्योतिर्नमोऽस्तु ते॥dīpo haratu me pāpaṁ dīpajyotirnamo'stu te.May the diya take away my wrongs. O flame of the diya, I bow to You.
    The diya
    1. Achaman
    2. Ganesh ji first
    3. The sankalp
    4. Naga Devata seated
    5. Naga Devata offered puja
    6. The nine names of the nagas
    7. The Karkotaka verse
    8. The naivedya at home
    9. The toram for the children
    10. Camphor aarti

    These 10 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

At the putta

11:16 AM–1:16 PM · Columbus

The diya by the anthill, a little milk poured in, chalimidi, chimmili and bananas offered, akshat scattered as the putta is circled, and its earth touched to the ears.

    1. To the putta
    2. Kumkum and flowers
    3. Milk for the nagas
    4. The naivedya at the putta
    5. The nine names of the nagas
    6. Around the putta
    7. The anthill earth
    8. The coconut
    9. Aarti at the putta
    10. The children's sparklers
    11. Milk at the threshold
    12. Kshama prarthana

    These 12 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

Night · the vrat opened

5:17 PM · Columbus

The prasad and the night meal.

    1. The vrat opened

    This step, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

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