Essentials for Chhath Puja (Samagri List)

🌞 Essentials for Chhath Puja (Samagri List)

🏞️ For the Arghya (Offerings to the Sun)

• Thekua – sweet wheat flour cookies made with jaggery and ghee (main prasad)

• Rice Laddoo (कसार)

• Coconut (with husk) – multiple pieces

• Bananas – at least one large bunch

• Sweet lime, oranges, apples, sugarcane, pomegranate, guava – seasonal fruits

• Singhara (water chestnut) – fresh or boiled

• Whole turmeric root (हल्दी की गांठ)

• Ginger root

• Raw rice (in small quantity)

• Dry fruits – dates, raisins, cardamom

• Earthen lamp (दीया) and mustard oil or ghee

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🧺 Puja Containers and Support Materials

• Sooop (सूप) – bamboo winnow trays

• Daura (बास की टोकरी) – bamboo basket

• Earthen pots (for water and prasad)

• Brass Kalash (लोटा)

• Incense sticks (अगरबत्ती)

• Camphor (कपूर)

• Matchbox

• Cotton wicks

• Chunari (Red/Yellow dupatta)

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🧴 Items for Cleaning and Ritual Bathing

• New clothes – sari/suit for women (preferably yellow/red), dhoti/kurta for men

• New towels

• Gangajal or clean river water

• Milk – for bathing the sun (in Arghya)

• Honey, turmeric powder, sandalwood paste – optional

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🛕 For the Ghat or Riverbank Setup

• Clay stove (मिट्टी का चूल्हा) for prasad cooking

• Wood or cow dung cakes for fuel

• Puja platform (can be sand mound or setup of bricks)

• Decorations – flowers, banana leaves, toran, rangoli

• Clean mat (for sitting)

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