Gauri Puja

Goddess Gauri is invited home and worshipped for three days. Married women pray to her for marital bliss and the long life of their husbands. Unmarried girls worship her in order to get virtuous husbands. The Gauri puja begins on the third day after Ganesh Chaturthi. This day is known as the avahana (arrival) as it is on this day that the Goddess is brought into the home. Following our tradition, the married women in the house draw small footsteps of the Goddess using rangoli (coloured) powder, following which Gauri's murti (idol) is brought home.