NAVRATHIRI DEVI PUJA

Happy and ready to celebrate festival of lights DIWALI.Though there is not much of preparation in Kitchen for

Diwali,the Diwali MARUNDHU also called as diwali lehiyam

is a must to be had in the early

morning on the CHATURDASI day and that needs some prior preparation.

It is made only once in a year.We get ready-made powder in Chennai.

But it can be made at home with little effort.

I remember my mother making with ginger alone after taking the

pulp of ginger and cooking with jagree.

I noted down an authentic easy diwali lehyam which i will post.

Now that the Navrathiri festival is over it is nice to recall

the past two years experience when i was in U.S. during 2007

and in Dar-es-salaam during 2008. Both the years are momorable

as i was with my daughter during the earlier year and with my

sister the later year.

This year back home in Hyderabad i celebrated the festival

for nine days with full satisfaction by arranging Golu,

and performed Puja specially with the flowers available

and making prasadams each day as per thithi, star and day

for Godess Durga,laxmi and saraswathi.I made a ready reckoner

type chart for the facility of refering it in advance and

keep things ready for the next day.Every year we circulate this chart

among our relatives and friends who are interested in celeberating

in the same way.

I wish this chart will be of use to all other friends too if

this is in blog for coming Navrathiris.Some alterations take place

in the order of the day of celebration as each year the dates differ.

I only doubt if all the items will be available

in all the countries.The information is gathered from the

book DEVI BAGAWADAM.I also welcome any information which my

friends have to share to include in the navrathiri

DEVI PUJA.

I wish all my friends and relatives Happy Diwali in advance and to

celebrate with kids taking due safety measures while bursting crackers.

The Lehyam and navarathiri chart is given below.

I will also suggest my friends to make the oil warm which we use

on naraka chaturdasi day for bathing (GANGA SNANAM) by adding

ajwain/omam,rice,ginger piece and beetle leaf.Please also take

care while doing this in hot oil by not being close to the stove.

NAVRATHIRI PUJA AND PRASADAM CHART is in JPEG format which can be opened

with the help of power point. After downloading, right click to bring the image to readable

position.