Posts tagged ‘Sankashti’

Sankashti Dates for 2012

Let me wish all the viewers of this blog a very happy new year and start 2012 on my blog with a post of Lord Ganeshji’s Sankashti dates for this year. Date Moon rise Thursday, January 12 9:17 pm Friday, February 10 9:03 pm Sunday, March 11 9:44 pm Monday, April 9 9:32 pm Wednesday, [...]

Sankashti Dates for 2011

First of all, let me wish all the viewers of my blog a very happy and prosperous new year.  I would like to put up Sankashti dates for the year 2011, this is the fourth year in succession that I am putting up these Sankashti dates. I have referred to the Udayavani diary as usual [...]

Performing the Sankashti Puja

At the request of my readers, I am devoting this post to describing a Sankashti Puja proceedure. As with other ritual, there are many ways to perform this puja as well, but the procedure I am describing is something I have followed for several years and is relatively simple. I will try to be as [...]

Cocunut-Rava Laddoo (Sankashti Prasadam)

About Rava Laddoo Rava Laddoo/Laddu is the delicacy of Karnataka. It is usually prepared during festive occasions such as Janmashtami and other religious functions observed by the Kannadigas in places like Bangalore and Mysore. Rava Laddoo is made from the thin semolina called the Chiroti rava. Some people also use Bombay rava, but it being [...]

Sweet Appam (Sankashti prasadam)

About Sweet Appam Appam is the favorite dish of Lord Ganesh and is a common prasadam for Sankashti and Ganesh Charthurthi (so also is Nevri which I put up earlier). In fact there are families that have for generations followed the custom of preparing and offering specific items as prasadam during Ganesh chathurthi. Apart from [...]

Sankashti Dates for 2008

Sankashti always falls on exactly the fourth day after the full moon day of every month. Many of us follow it by fasting the whole day in various ways to suit one’s convenience. Many of them follow only that Sankashti which falls on Tuesdays, it is Lord Ganapathi’s day. There is a belief that if [...]

Sankashti Food – Sagu (Sabudana) Kichadi

Sankashti is Sankashta Hara Chathurthi. People have cut short it by naming it as Sankashti. It comes once in a month, falling exactly 4 days after the full-moon day. People follow it by fasting the whole day and visiting Ganesh temple in the evenings. Gana homas are held in almost all Ganapathi temples in the [...]

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