Mon, 14 Sept · Completed
Ganesh Chaturthi 2026
You bring Ganesha home on Chaturthi morning and keep him for a few days. Then you take him to water.
Ganesh Chaturthi · what happens
The main moment is the installation.
You bring the murti home and install it on Chaturthi morning. Keep it for 1½, 3, 5, 7 or 10 days. Your family decides. Then take it to water.
- 1Set up the seatThe day before
Clean the room. Put a cloth on the chowki and decorate behind it. Have everything ready before he arrives.
- 2Install the murtiChaturthi morning
Put the murti in place and do the pran pratishtha. Offer sindoor, durva and the first modak. Then do the aarti.
- 3Aarti, twice a dayMorning and evening
Sing Sukhkarta Dukhharta in the evening. Offer 21 blades of durva every day, with red hibiscus and modak.
- 4VisarjanThe last day
Do the uttarpuja first, to thank him and ask leave. Then carry the murti to water.
Done differently in some states
- MaharashtraTen days. Public mandals as well as home murtis. Lalbaugcha Raja draws the whole city.
- KarnatakaCalled Gauri-Ganesha. Gauri comes the day before her son, and both are worshipped.
- GoaCalled Chovoth. A matoli of fruit and forest produce is hung above the murti.
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