pooja samagri (items) !

Ganesh puja is done using the items that are required especially for the festival. It is believed that each puja item has a significance. This is primarily because of the fact that in order to worship the deity in a traditional way, all the puja items are required. Therefore, nothing should be missed out from the list of puja items for ganesh chaturthi.

Buy all the pooja samagri (items), a cute clay idol of Lord Ganesha and a book narrating the story of the Lord ganesha and pooja vidhaanam , the significance of conducting this auspicious pooja.

We would wake up early in the morning ,First clean the house and take a bath and get prepared to decorate the Paalavalli (roof made with bamboo sticks to place over the idol) with fruits and flowers and place the clay idol of Lord Ganesha below it on a decorated stool(platform)

Ganesha under decorated "PALAVELLI"

And place our studying books before the idol, along with fruits and naivedyam as its believed that the Lord would help us do well in our studies and overcome all obstacles in life and bless us.Some of the very important puja items for ganesh chaturthi include a puja thali, bell, diyas (lamps)..next all rituals are performed.

puja items list:

- Lord Ganesha idol
- Turmeric powder

- Kum kum
- Camphor
- Agarbathi sticks
- Sandle Powder
- Rose water
- Akshitalu
- Betel leaves
- Betel Nuts
- Coconuts
- Deepam(lamp)
- Coins
- Cotton wicks (long vatis)
- Cotton vastra
- Naivedyams(prasadam)
- Ganesh patri (sacred leaves)
- Velagapandu or velagakaaya(Wood apple)
- Fruits
- Flowers
- A Story book of Lord Ganesha(pooja vidhanam)