Samagri & prasad

Chhath Puja Samagri List: Everything You Need for the Puja

Sort the items detailed in the source into baskets and containers, fresh fruits and vegetables, and cooking and ceremonial necessities. The checklist can be checked off during review and printed for home organization.

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Shubh Chhath Puja greeting artwork with sugarcane, coconut, fruits, thekua and earthen lamps.
This Chhath Puja greeting artwork showcases sugarcane, fruits, a bamboo basket, and lamps.

The Complete Chhath Puja Samagri Checklist

The preparation for Chhath Puja is very detailed. The festival calls for particular traditional items (Samagri), largely organic, eco-friendly, and connected to agricultural harvests. Omitting even one item can disturb the Puja Vidhi, so families carefully arrange this list ahead of time.

Baskets and Containers

  • Daura: A sizable, deep basket crafted from bamboo. It serves to transport all the offerings to the Ghat.
  • Soop: Winnowing baskets crafted from bamboo or brass are directly held by the Vrati to present Arghya to the Sun. (Usually, 2 to 5 Soops are needed based on family customs).
  • Kalsi / Lota: A brass or clay vessel employed to pour holy water and milk during the Arghya.

Fruits and Vegetables (The Harvest Offering)

Chhath demands the freshest, unblemished seasonal fruits:

  • Sugarcane (Ganna): Whole sugarcane stalks with green tops are used to form a canopy (mandap) above the offerings at the Ghat.
  • Coconuts (Nariyal): Fresh coconuts with water inside, symbolising absolute purity.
  • Grapefruit / Pomelo (Daab / Gaagar): A sizable citrus fruit indigenous to the area, vital for the Soop.
  • Bananas: An entire bunch (Ghaud) of unripe or ripe bananas.
  • Apples, Sweet Lime (Mosambi), and Water Chestnuts (Singhara).
  • Radish (Mooli): Fresh radish with its green leaves intact.
  • Suthni: A root vegetable native to Bihar, vital for traditional offerings.

Spices, Holy Items, and Cooking Essentials

  • Turmeric and Ginger plants: Freshly uprooted ginger and turmeric with green shoots.
  • Sindoor (Vermilion): A long orange/yellow sindoor unique to Chhath, worn by married women from the nose extending up to the hairline.
  • Alta / Mahawar: Red dye applied to the feet of the Vrati.
  • Pure Ghee, Jaggery (Gud), and Whole Wheat: Needed in substantial amounts for preparing Prasad such as Thekua and Rasiyaw.
  • Camphor (Kapur), Incense sticks (Agarbatti), and earthen lamps (Diya).
  • Raw Milk: Crucial for offering during the Arghya.

The original article text is retained from the provided Chhath Puja collection. This edition includes added navigation, summaries, images, and clearly marked editorial notes.

Traditional Chhath prasad

Thekua, Rasiyaw and Kasasar feature in this guide to Chhath prasad. It describes their ingredients and devotional place, together with the source account's traditional approach to preparation.

Traditional Thekua recipe

Make the source recipe's Thekua through four stages: prepare jaggery syrup, mix a stiff dough, shape the pieces and fry them. The ingredient quantities and original method are preserved below.

Sugarcane, coconut and fruits

The offering basket reflects the source article's connections between the harvest, gratitude and family prayers. Explore its interpretations of sugarcane, coconut, pomelo, bananas and root vegetables.