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Puja vidhi · Surya and Chhathi Maiya

Chhath puja vidhi

The four days of Chhath — Nahay Khay, Kharna, the Sandhya Arghya to the setting sun and the Usha Arghya at sunrise — with the soop of thekua and seasonal produce, at the sunset and sunrise of your city.

When to do the puja

Chhath is kept on Kartika Shukla Shashthi: the Sandhya Arghya at sunset on Shashthi and the Usha Arghya at sunrise the next morning, when the fast is broken.

ഛഠ് പൂജ: 15/11/2026 (ഞായർ)

Later dates: ഛഠ് പൂജ 04/11/2027 (വ്യാഴം)

Festival page: dates, rules and timings

Thāne, Maharashtra, India 19.1970°, 72.9635° Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30) ഉത്തരേന്ത്യൻ · ലാഹിരി (ക്രമീകരിച്ചത്)

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Panchang details for the sankalpa

For the day of the puja at your place: 15/11/2026 (ഞായർ)

Vikram Samvat
2083
Month
കാർത്തികം ശുക്ലപക്ഷം (അമാന്തയിലും പൂർണ്ണിമാന്തയിലും ഒരേ പേര്)
Tithi at the puja time
ഷഷ്ഠി
Weekday (vara)
ഞായർ (രവിവാരം)

Fasting

After the Kharna meal the vrati keeps a fast without water for about 36 hours, until the Usha Arghya.

Fasting is a devotional choice, not a requirement: children, the elderly, pregnant or nursing women and anyone unwell or on medication should eat as needed or ask a doctor first.

Samagri checklist

Suggested quantities for a household puja — adjust them to your custom. Tick the items as you collect them; the ticks are kept only in this browser.

Altar and images
Puja items
Lamp
Kalash
Flowers and leaves
Offerings and prasad
Other

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Step-by-step vidhi

Each step says what to do, then the mantra. A short puja may use the five offerings (panchopachara) instead of sixteen.

  1. Day 1 — Nahay Khay

    On Chaturthi the vrati bathes (in a river if possible), cleans the house and eats one satvik meal, traditionally rice, chana dal and bottle gourd cooked without onion and garlic.

  2. Day 2 — Kharna

    On Panchami the vrati fasts all day and in the evening, after worship, eats kheer of jaggery and rice with roti; the prasad is shared, and the waterless fast begins.

  3. Sankalpa (resolve)

    Take water, akshat, a flower and a coin in the right hand and state the time and place (the Panchang details below), your name and gotra (if known) and the purpose: the Chhath vrata and the arghya to Surya and Chhathi Maiya. Then let the water flow onto the ground or a plate.

    ॐ विष्णुर्विष्णुर्विष्णुः ।अद्य … मासे … पक्षे … तिथौ … वासरे …… गोत्रः … नामाहं … पूजनं करिष्ये ॥
    Paddhati formula

    A priest or an elder can recite the full sankalpa; saying it in your own language is equally accepted in household worship.

  4. Day 3 — Sandhya Arghya

    In the afternoon carry the soop and daura with thekua, fruits, sugarcane and seasonal produce to the ghat (or a clean water tub at home). Standing in the water at sunset, offer arghya of water (or milk) to the setting sun with the soop raised, while the family sings Chhath songs.

    एहि सूर्य सहस्रांशो तेजोराशे जगत्पते ।अनुकम्पय मां भक्त्या गृहाणार्घ्यं दिवाकर ॥
    From our Bhakti library · Ehi Surya Sahasramsho (arghya verse)
    ॐ घृणि सूर्याय नमः ॥
    From our Bhakti library · Om Ghrini Suryaya Namah

  5. Lighting the lamp

    Light the main ghee lamp on the right side of the deity (as you face it) and keep it burning through the puja.

    शुभं करोति कल्याणम् आरोग्यं धनसम्पदा ।शत्रुबुद्धिविनाशाय दीपज्योतिर्नमोऽस्तु ते ॥
    From our Bhakti library · Shubham Karoti (evening lamp prayer)

  6. Day 4 — Usha Arghya

    Return to the ghat before dawn and offer arghya to the rising sun in the same way. Then pray to Chhathi Maiya, take the blessing of the elders and break the fast with water, prasad and ginger or jaggery.

    एहि सूर्य सहस्रांशो तेजोराशे जगत्पते ।अनुकम्पय मां भक्त्या गृहाणार्घ्यं दिवाकर ॥
    From our Bhakti library · Ehi Surya Sahasramsho (arghya verse)

  7. Kshama prarthana

    With folded hands ask forgiveness for any omission in the worship, then distribute the prasad.

    आवाहनं न जानामि न जानामि विसर्जनम् ।पूजां चैव न जानामि क्षमस्व परमेश्वर ॥मन्त्रहीनं क्रियाहीनं भक्तिहीनं सुरेश्वर ।यत्पूजितं मया देव परिपूर्णं तदस्तु मे ॥
    From our Bhakti library · Avahanam Na Janami (closing prayer of puja)

  8. Visarjana and prasad

    Distribute the thekua and fruits of the soop as prasad to family and neighbours.

Regional variations

Follow your family tradition

Families and regions perform this puja in different ways. Where your family or your priest follows a different order, other mantras or other materials, follow your family tradition.

Aartis, stotras and katha

Sources

The festival-day rule comes from the festival engine’s definition; the procedure from these texts. Where we say “commonly followed practice”, no classical text prescribes the custom in this form.

This guide describes common household practice for devotional use. It is not a substitute for a priest where your tradition asks for one, and it makes no promise of any result.

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