🎁 For Navagraha Pooja
The navagraha puja samagri list is the one household list where order matters: nine grains, nine cloths and nine samidha, each belonging to one graha. This kit keeps them bagged and labelled by graha so the purohit can lay the nine out without sorting, for a Navgrah pooja at home for a dosha, a dasha change or before a muhurtham.
About this kit
Navagraha Pooja worships the nine grahas — Surya, Chandra, Kuja, Budha, Guru, Sukra, Sani, Rahu and Ketu — each with its own grain, colour, flower and samidha. Wheat and red for Surya, rice and white for Chandra, red gram and red for Kuja, green gram and green for Budha, chickpea and yellow for Guru, white beans and white for Sukra, sesame and black for Sani, black gram and dark blue for Rahu, horse gram and multicoloured for Ketu. The samagri is therefore nine small sets, and a kit that arrives with them mixed costs the purohit half an hour on the day.
The kit is assembled with the navadhanyam in nine separate bags, the nine cloths folded in graha order, and the nine samidha bundles tied and labelled. It serves a Navagraha Pooja on its own or the pooja that opens a Navagraha Homam; for the homam's larger samidha and havan samagri, see the Navagraha Homam Kit.
What is in the box
Item 1
The archana set for the nine — each graha's Ashtottara or nama archana is done with akshata and flowers; kumkum and turmeric mark the graha images or the grain heaps that stand for them.
Item 2
Godhumalu, biyyam, kandulu, pesalu, senagalu, bobbarlu, nuvvulu, minumulu and ulavalu — one bag per graha, laid in the nine-square navagraha mandala in the prescribed positions.
Item 3
A cloth in each graha's colour, spread under its grain heap or offered as vastram — red, white, red, green, yellow, white, black, blue and multicoloured, in graha order.
Item 4
The nine sacred woods — arka, palasa, khadira, apamarga, pippala, udumbara, sami, durva and darbha — in small bundles for the graha offerings, each labelled.
Item 5
The navagraha deepam, one wick for each graha, lit with the ghee in the kit and kept burning through the pooja.
Item 6
Nine tamboolam sets with a coin each, one per graha, offered at the close and given as dakshina.
Item 7
Agarbatti for the dhoopam and karpuram for the harathi to the nine.
Samagri requirements vary with regional tradition, family custom and the performing priest. This list is what the kit is normally assembled with — confirm the final contents with your purohit before dispatch. Fresh items are supplied against your ceremony date.
Through the ceremony
A nine-square mandala is drawn on the peetham with rice flour or turmeric, and each graha's cloth and grain heap is placed in its position — Surya at the centre, the others around him in the prescribed order.
The family states the purpose — a dosha, a dasha, a muhurtham — and Ganapathi is worshipped first with turmeric, akshata and flowers.
Each graha is invoked into its heap or image with its dhyana sloka, its adhidevata and pratyadhidevata, and marked with sandal paste and kumkum.
The Ashtottara or nama archana for each graha with akshata and its flower; the nine samidha are offered where the family's form includes them without a homam.
The navagraha deepam is lit, and each graha's naivedyam — its grain cooked, or fruit and jaggery — is offered with the nine tamboolam.
Camphor harathi to the nine, and the grains, cloths and coins are given as dana to the purohit or to the temple as the family's custom holds.
Not in the box
Common questions
The archana powders and flowers; navadhanyam — nine grains bagged separately; nine cloths in the graha colours; nine samidha bundles; a nine-wick lamp with ghee; nine tamboolam sets with coins; camphor and agarbatti. The kit carries all of it, labelled by graha.
Surya — wheat, red. Chandra — rice, white. Kuja — red gram (kandulu), red. Budha — green gram, green. Guru — chickpea (senagalu), yellow. Sukra — white beans (bobbarlu), white. Sani — sesame, black. Rahu — black gram (minumulu), dark blue. Ketu — horse gram (ulavalu), multicoloured. The bags and cloths in the kit are labelled in this order.
The pooja list is the base of the havan list, but a Navagraha Homam needs the samidha in larger bundles, havan samagri and cow ghee for the offerings, which the Navagraha Homam Kit carries. If you are booking the homam, order that kit.
Yes — it is listed under Archana & Offerings as a nine-bag set, for Gruha Pravesham, Bhoomi Pooja and any pooja that calls for the nine grains without the full navagraha samagri.
For a graha dosha shown in the horoscope, at a dasha or antardasha change, before a marriage or a Gruha Pravesham, and on Saturdays or the day of the graha concerned. Whether a specific dosha calls for it is an astrology question; ask for a consultation if you have not been advised.
Tell us the ceremony date when you enquire. We confirm availability, the final contents and the price before anything is charged; fresh items are supplied against the date.
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