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Step-by-step Pongal 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.
Pongal 2026: 14–16 January 20264 daysपोंगल
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In the order a household actually does it, including what to set up beforehand.
Bhogi
Clean the house and burn old items in the Bhogi bonfire. Draw the kolam. In the evening, the house is ready for the festival.
Thai Pongal
Cook rice, moong dal, milk and jaggery in a new clay pot on a hearth of bricks, decorated with turmeric and kolam. When it boils over, shout 'Pongalo Pongal'. Offer the first serving to the sun, then to the family.
Mattu Pongal
Bathe the cattle, apply turmeric and kumkum, paint their horns, and garland them with bells. Feed them pongal first. In many villages, a cattle race or cattle decoration competition is held.
Kaanum Pongal
Visit relatives and share a meal. Lay the leftover pongal, coloured rice and curd rice on a turmeric leaf in the courtyard for birds — a ritual of giving to other living things.
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 full four-day festival: Bhogi bonfire, Thai Pongal with the boiling pot, Mattu Pongal for cattle, and Kaanum Pongal for family visits. A public holiday across the state.
Observed as a public holiday with the same rituals, and in Sri Lanka as Thai Pongal, one of the major Tamil festivals on the island.
The same solar date is observed as Suggi in Karnataka and Sankranti in Andhra, with a three-day structure of Bhogi, Sankranti and Kanuma, and similar cattle decoration on the third day.
Thai Pongal is a public holiday in Malaysia and an official festival in Singapore and Mauritius, celebrated with the pot ritual and kolam in Tamil communities.
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