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Step-by-step Chhath Puja puja vidhi for 2026 — what to prepare, the order of the ritual, and what to do when you are doing it at home for the first time.
Chhath Puja 2026: 15 November 20264 daysछठ पूजा
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In the order a household actually does it, including what to set up beforehand.
Day 1 — Nahay Khay
Bathe in a river or at home with water drawn fresh, then eat a single sattvik meal cooked with clean utensils used only for this. Onion, garlic and any non-vegetarian food are strictly avoided from this day.
Day 2 — Kharna
Keep a waterless fast through the day. After sunset, break it with gur ki kheer (rice kheer with jaggery) and roti, cooked fresh. From this meal onwards, a 36-hour waterless fast begins.
Day 3 — Sandhya Arghya
Carry the daura to the ghat in the afternoon. Lay out the prasad on banana leaves inside bamboo soop, decorate with rangoli, and stand in the water facing west. Offer to the setting sun with raw milk, water and the prasad, holding the soop.
Day 4 — Usha Arghya
Return to the ghat before sunrise and offer to the rising sun facing east. After the arghya, break the 36-hour fast with prasad and ginger. This closes the vrat.
Many families and mohalla committees clean and decorate their local ghat in the days before, which is both a civic act and part of the ritual preparation.
The checklist tool builds the full item list for this puja from the same data as the steps above, and saves your ticks on your own device so you can reopen it in the market.
Ritual order genuinely varies. Where it does, this is the difference.
The centre of the festival. Patna's ghats along the Ganga host lakhs of parvaitins, and the state effectively slows for four days. Chhath is the state's most widely observed festival, cutting across caste lines.
Observed with the same four-day structure on the Ganga and Sarayu in Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Allahabad and Ayodhya. The Purvanchali diaspora carries it everywhere.
Celebrated across Jharkhand with the same ghat rituals, and in Kolkata among the Bihari community, particularly at Babughat and the Ganga ghats organised for the festival.
In Delhi, the Yamuna ghats at ITO, Kalindi Kunj and Wazirabad are prepared for Chhath with temporary ponds for families who cannot reach a river. Mumbai has similar arrangements at Juhu and Powai.
Chhath is a major public holiday in Nepal's Terai region, with the same Nahay Khay, Kharna, Sandhya and Usha Arghya sequence on the Bagmati and other rivers.
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