Pooja Items
Below are the items to bring for each pooja. Your priest may suggest additional items when you book.
Items to bring
- Fruits
- Flowers – 1 bunch
- Turmeric – 1 cup
- Kumkum – 1 cup
- Betel leaves – 10
- Betel nuts – 20
- 5 kinds of Fruits
- Panchamrutham (milk, honey, yogurt, ghee and sugar) – Mix and bring half gallon
- Coconuts – 2
- Flowers – 4 bunches
- Agarbathi – 1 packet
- Sooji Rava Prasadam
- Blouse pieces (except black color) – 2
- Rice, raw – 1lb
- Navadhanyam (wheat, rice, toor dal, moong dal, chenna dal, avare kalu, black sesame, urad dal, horse gram dal). – 1 packet
Note: Please check with Punditji before you buy. - Chandan – 1/4 cup
- Kalasham – 1
Note: If you don’t have a Kalasham, please check with Punditji. - Silver/brass plate or tray – 1
- Sri Satyanarayana Swamy picture
- $20 in quarters
- Flowers – 1 bunch
- Fruits – 4 or 5 kinds
- Betel leaves – 10
- Betel nuts – 20
- Coconut – 1
- Blouse piece (except black color) – 1
- $10 in quarters
- Agarbathi – 1 packet
- Fruits – 1 dozen
- Flowers – 1 bunch
- Lemons – 5
- Coconut – 1
- Fruits – 1 dozen
- Flowers – 1 bunch
- Turmeric / Haldi – 1/4 cup
- Kumkum – 1/4 cup
- Milk – 1 gallon
- Coconuts – 4
- Fruits – 2 dozen
- Bananas – 1 dozen
- Flowers – 4 bunches
- Rice (raw) – 5 lbs
- Betel leaves – 20
- Betel nuts – 20
- Pumpkin or Squash – 1
- Ghee (Home made with unsalted butter is preferred) – 2 lbs
- Aluminum Trays – 2
- Kalasa Vastram (White cloth 1 yard) – 1
- Towels (new) – 2
- Agarbathi – 1 packet
- Camphor (Karpooram) – 3 packets
- Navadhanyam (wheat, rice, toor dal, moong dal, chenna dal, avare kalu, black sesame, urad dal, horse gram dal). – 1 packet (200 gms each)
Note: Please check with Punditji before you buy. - Poha – 2 lbs
- Puffed Rice – 2 lbs
- Wooden Planks (if available to protect carpet – 2
- Deepa stambhas or any kind of lamp stands – 2
- Trays – 4
- Cotton Wicks – 1 packet
- Change for $20 (quarters)
- New pan for boiling milk (Should be unused)
- Milk – 2 gallons
- Coconuts – 1
- Fruits – 1 dozen
- Flowers – 1 bunch
- Yogurt – 1/2 gallon
- Honey – 1 bottle
- Juice (orange or apple) – 2 gallons
- Milk – 1 gallon
- Coconuts – 1
- Fruits
- Flowers – 1 bunch
- Yogurt – 1/2 gallon
- Juice (orange or apple) – 1/2 gallon
- Unsalted butter – 10 lbs
- Fruits – 1 dozen
- Flowers – 1 bunch
- Vadas made into a garland – 108
- Fruits
- Flowers – 1 bunch
- Betal Leaves / Viledhele – 108
- Fruits
- Flowers – 1 bunch
- Turmeric – 1/2 cup
- Kumkum – 1/2 cup
- Chandanam – 1/4 cup
- Betel leaves – 10
- Betel nuts – 20
- Flowers – 2 bunches
- 5 kinds of fruits (5 in each variety)
- Rice (raw) – 2 lbs
- Navadhanyam (wheat, rice, toor dal, moong dal, chenna dal, avare kalu, black sesame, urad dal, horse gram dal). – 1 packet (200 gms each)
Note: Please check with Punditji before you buy. - Coconuts – 2
- Blouse piece (except black). You can buy 1 yard pieces from Wal-Mart – 1
- Ghee (Home made with unsalted butter is preferred) – 2 lbs
- Sesame Oil
- Camphor (Karpooram) – 1 packet
- Fire Logs or wood chunks – 1 pack
- $20 in 25-cent coins
- Turmeric – 1/2 cup
- Kumkum – 1/2 cup
- Chandanam – 1/4 cup
- Betel leaves – 10
- Betel nuts – 20
- Flowers – 2 bunches
- 5 kinds of fruits (5 in each variety)
- Rice (raw) – 2 lbs
- Navadhanyam (wheat, rice, toor dal, moong dal, chenna dal, avare kalu, black sesame, urad dal, horse gram dal). – 1 packet (200 gms each)
Note: Please check with Punditji before you buy. - Coconuts – 2
- Blouse piece (except black). You can buy 1 yard pieces from Wal-Mart – 1
- Ghee (Home made with unsalted butter is preferred) – 2 lbs
- Betel leaves – 10
- Betel nuts – 20
- 5 Kinds of Fruits
- Coconuts – 2
- Flowers – 2 bunches
- Prasadam (Any kind of sweet or halwa)
- Agarbathi – 1 packet
- Garlands (flowers 2ft each) – 3
- Saris for Goddesses – 2
- Blouse Pieces (except black color) for Goddesses – 2
- Dhothi and Uttareeyam for Lord – 1
- Milk – 1/2 gallon
- Laddu or any sweet prasadam
- $10 change in 25-cent coins
- Betel leaves – 10
- Betel nuts – 20
- 5 Kinds of Fruits
- Coconuts – 2
- Flowers – 2 bunches
- Agarbathi – 1 packet
- $10 change in 25-cent coins
- Betel leaves – 10
- Betel nuts – 20
- Fruits – 1 dozen
- Coconut – 1
- Flowers – 1 bunch
- Chandanam
- Rice, raw – 3 lbs
- Agarbathi – 1 packet
- Any Sweet Parasadam
- New Clothes for Baby
- $10 change in 25-cent coins
- Turmeric – 1 cup
- Kumkum – 1 cup
- Flowers (loose) – 4 bunches
- Flower Garlands (2-3 feet long)
- Betel leaves – 50
- Betel nuts – 25
- Chandanam – 1/4 cup
- Coconuts – 4
- Agarbathi – 1 packet
- Curtain (White cloth with border) – 1
- Cumin Seeds (Jeera) – 1 packet
- Gud (Bellam) – Jaggery – 1 packet
- Mangla Sutra and Mettelu/ Toe Rings
- Wedding Rings and Bashayakams
- Yellow Rice for Talambraalu
- Khalasam for Punyaahavachanam
- Blouse Pieces – 2
- Milk – 1/2 gallon
- Yoghurt & Honey for Madhuparkam
- Mango Leaves
- Oil Lamps, cotton wicks, match box, camphor, trays, napkins, towels, glasses and spoons
- Plate and vessel to clean feet of the Groom
- $25 Change as 25-cent coins
- Fire Logs & Ghee for Homam (Havan)
- Turmeric – 1 cup
- Kumkum – 1 cup
- Saree and blouse pieces – 1 and 2
- Glass Bangles
- Flowers – 1 bunch
- Thread for Kankanams
- Cloth or Towel
- Turmeric – 1/2 cup
- Kumkum – 1/2 cup
- Chandanam – 1/4 cup
- Flowers – 2 bunches
- Betel leaves – 10
- Betel nuts – 20
- Fruits – 2 dozen
- Agarbathi – 1 packet
- Camphor/ Karpooram 1 packet
- Cotton Wicks – 1 pack
- Sesame Oil
- Rice, raw – 2 lbs
- Navadhanyam (wheat, rice, toor dal, moong dal, chenna dal, avare kalu, black sesame, urad dal, horse gram dal). – 1 packet (200 gms each)
Note: Please check with Punditji before you buy. - Kalasam
- Coconuts – 2
- Any sweet prasadam
- All Above Pooja materials
- Blouse pieces (red, 2 white, maroon, green, yellow, black, ash color, multi-color)
- Ghee – 2 lbs
- Fruits – 1 lb
- $10 in 25-cents coins
- Rice, raw – 1lb
- Bananas – 1 dozen
- Til (Black Sesame) – 1 packet
- Rice + Joggery + Toor Dal + Moon Dal + Vegetables (for Dhanam (donation
- $5 in quarters
- Rice, raw – 1lb
- Bananas – 1/2 dozen
- Til (Black Sesame) – 1 packet
- Rice + Joggery + Toor Dal + Moong Dal + Vegetables (for Daanam (donation
- $5 in quarters
