Mangala Gouri Puja, or Mangala Gowri Vrata, is observed by married women on Tuesdays (Mangalwar) in the Hindu month of Shravan. The puja is observed by women for the long life of their husbands and for a happy and prosperous married life. Newlyweds perform this puja for five years after their wedding.

Since it is observed on Tuesday in the Shravana month, it is known as Shravan Maas Mangala Gouri Puja.

Special pujas dedicated to Goddess Parvati are performed on the day. It is believed that Goddess Parvati blesses women with material prosperity, health and long life.

The women also get together and do haldi kumkum and sing and dance mangalagaur songs.

After five years, they supposed to do “udyapan” उद्यापन [culmination of this ritual] women offer “van” वाण [gift] to their mothers to get her blessings on udyapan of this ritual.

Step by Step instruction for puja at home.

Note: These instructions are very basic to perform puja every Tuesday of Shravan Month. If you would like a detail puja you can call a pandit [ guruji ] or follow a pujawidhi booklet.

1. Take a chourang [wooden stool] and put it where your other deities are situated in the house.

2. Spread a red cloth on it.

3. Put a handful of rice grains on the left side of the chourang and put a beetle nut [ supari] or a small Idol of Ganpati.

4. Take a silver or steel small bowl [ vati] and put some rice in it, and now place idol of annapurna [ gauri ] [ most of you got this during your wedding , given by your parents] if not, you can buy a gauri idol form a local Indian market.

5. In this particular puja, all the offerings are in number 16. So you need to make following items in number 16.

a. Akshata: sort all kinds of lentils for example: Moong, Masoor, Matki, Toor, Chana , Rice etc. take those in the set of 16 grains and mix.

b. Flower and Leaves: 16 different type of those

c. A few pieces of cloth 16 is best but any number.

d. Take soubhagya dravya : Green glass bangles, a small manglsutra, kajal , perfume [ attar]

e. Pan patta [ Puja leaves] , a few coins, whole almond, kharik ,beetle nuts[ supari], a piece of dry coconut along with a small piece of jaggery on it [ gul- khadya]

f. Water in a kalash, puja plate [ tamhan] and spoon

g. Haldi [turmeric Powder], kum-kum, gulal , bukka , sandlewood paste.

h. Prepare a naivedya thali with basic maharashtrian food, along with 16 small diyas made-up of puran . Practically, its time consuming to fill all the 16 diyas with ghee and light it with cotton vat [ candle rope] so shortcut for this is just make 16 small shapes of diya on puran and just put 16 vat [ candle ropes] on the center one , which you can make bigger to fit in.

i. Make panchamrut : take one teaspoon each of milk, yougurt, honey, sugar and ghee and mix in a small bowl.

6. Now you can start your puja:

a. Pick up the Ganpati idol or supari from the chourang and place it in the puja plate[ tamhan ] now pour water and chant ganesh mantra to give bath to ganapat bapaa

b. Now pour panchamrut

c. Now pour fresh water again to rinse.

d. Dry your ganpati idol or supari with a cloth.

e. Put it back on the courang over the rice.

f. Offer [put infront of Ganpati ] two pan patta with a coin, supari, kharik and almond, gul- khadya , and pour few drops of water as offering.

g. Now offer haldi-kumkum, akshata , chandan and a red flower to ganpati bappa and pray.

h. Now take the gauri idol and do the same sequence as Ganpati bappa and put it back in the bowl

i. Now offer all the soubhagya dravya, special akshata, flowers and leaves.

j. Offer new cloths.

k. Now do the ganpati arti .

l. Now Read the mangala gauri katha if time permits, it not, then just do the manglagauri arti using the naivedya plate which has 16 puran diyas.

m. Pray to Goddess gauri for healthy and happy married life and eat your Prasad [ naivedya thali] without talking to anybody during your meal!

n. If you are inviting other newly married girls to perform puja, you need to make sure that they bring their own gauri idol and you need to prepare their naivedya thali alongwith 16 puran diyas separately for each of them.

o. Do the evening arti and do the jagran if possible.

p. Next day morning: offer Rice-yogurt naivadya to gauri and offer some akshata to conclude this puja.

मंगळागौरीची पूजा म्हणजे उमा-शंकराची पूजा. पतीपत्नीमधील आत्यंतिक प्रेम व निष्ठेचा आदर्श म्हणून या दांपत्याकडे पाहिले जाते. त्यांची कृपादृष्टी संपादन करण्यासाठी किंवा आदर्शाचे स्मरण करण्याच्या हेतूने ही पूजा करतात.

लग्न झाल्यावर पहिली पाच वर्षे श्रावण महिन्यातील प्रत्येक मंगळवारी स्त्रिया मंगळागौरीची पूजा करतात.

ज्यांच्या घरी मंगळागौरीची पूजा असेल त्यांच्या घरी संध्याकाळी बायकांना हळदीकुंकवासाठी बोलावतात. हळद-कुंकू, विडयाची पाने, सुपारी व हातावर साखर देतात मटकीची उसळ, वाटली डाळ, करंज्या, चकल्या, लाडू वगैरे फराळाचे जिन्नस करतात व सर्वांना जेवायला बोलवतात. रात्री पुन्हा मंगळागौरीची आरती करतात.

पाच वर्ष पूर्ण झाली कि ह्या व्रताच उद्यापन केलं जातं . ह्या वेळी आई ला वाण द्यायची पद्धत आहे .