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Ugadi · Gudi Padwa · puja vidhi

How to do the Ugadi · Gudi Padwa puja at home

The lunar new year; the gudi is raised at dawn.

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.

Ugadi · Gudi Padwa

  1. Wash the doorway before dawn

    The threshold washed, mango leaves strung as a toran, and the rangoli drawn fresh.

  2. Oil bath and new clothes

    Abhyanga snana before sunrise, and the year's new clothes worn straight after.

    1. Raise the gudi
    2. Make the pachadi
    3. Eat it first
    4. Hear the panchang

    These 4 steps are in the app

The same day is Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra and Cheti Chand for Sindhi houses; in the north the Vikram year begins with Chaitra Navratri's first morning.

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