Saturday, October 17, 2009

Day 12 - Neer Roppara Pandigai ( Water Filling Festival)

Diwali starts today night.
If my laptop had a mouth , it would scream. I'm typing this with half dried marudaani (on the other hand
now).

Okay so, today we had this, literally traslated, water filling festival :D
Its celebrated, to symbolically worship all the holy rivers, especially the Ganges.
Mom started off by making me smear a big steel pot with sunnambu (someone tell me what it is in english!) and then filling it with water and muttering a sloka at top speed.



Well then we lighted this awesome terracota lamp, with a Ganesha on it.


Then ofcourse, there is a tradition of making of hot bajjis and pakodas and my ever favorite kesari :D Thats diwali day one at my place :) Hope u guys are having a great time too...

PS: Thanks to Editor in Chief, Changing Crow... for the follow :)

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

yeah.. get some of those bajjis and pakodas parcelled soon will ya? :D

m gettin hungry reading u :D

Priya Vinay said...

i seem to be talking too much about food nowadays no??? :P

Snow White said...

hey i havent heard of these customs..gettin to know from you itself friend :)nice pics and good post :)keep enjoying and let us also know wat was spl this diwali :)
hey for me too send those stuffs..got to eat ;)

Anonymous said...

i think limestone is sunnambu..im not sure!

maybe ur mom is secretly communicating with aliens at top speed! :O

Soin said...

not bursting crackers??

Priya Vinay said...

4 snow...

Shall i mail them???? :)

Priya Vinay said...

4 sriv...

u know its possible!!! maybe ma wants me to go back to my planet! :O

Priya Vinay said...

4 soin...

Nope!!! I quit two years back :)

Harini said...

Hmm... we actually dont do this. Well every one had their own ritual thats why India is so diverse. Anyways, Have a great Diwali :)

Priya Vinay said...

4 Harini..

Hey thanks for the read :)
These customs differ within families itself. This is followed on my dad's side. Any reason to celebrate and be happy right???

Hope u had a great diwali :)
keep reading :)

Vishnu said...

hey.. i got these 3 very small iron pots(maybe pot shaped tumblers) at home.. they are filled with the water from the ganges.. n they are sealed to prevent me from drinking the water.. so they are always present in all the pujas.. neways.. happy diwali..

Priya Vinay said...

4 Vish...

Yeah I got those at home too... But ma does this also.. :)

PS: To prevent you from drinking the water?? lol!

Vishnu said...

wen i was in 6th..i actually put a hole in one of those with a screw driver and drank the water.. curiousity killed the cat.. it was damn sweet.. well i guess am not gonna say wat happened there after..

Priya Vinay said...

4 vish again...

ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!