Gudi Padwa Gifts

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Gudi Padwa is one of the three and a half days Maharashtra buys on The festival falls on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, the first day of the waxing moon in Chaitra, which puts it in March or early April. In the Maharashtrian reckoning it is one of the saade teen muhurat, the three and a half days in the year so auspicious that nothing begun on them needs a muhurat looked up first: Gudi Padwa, Akshaya Tritiya, Dussehra, and Diwali Padwa as the half. That is why a family that has been putting off a purchase makes it on this morning, and why the day carries more buying than a spring festival otherwise would. What actually happens at the door A bamboo staff is dressed in bright silk, usually green or yellow, with neem and mango leaves tied at the top and a garland of gathi, the sugar crystals sold only in this week. A metal pot goes over the whole thing, inverted. The gudi is raised at sunrise, at the door or off a window or terrace where the street can see it, and it comes down before sunset. Rangoli is laid at the threshold, the day begins with an oil bath, and somewhere in the morning everyone eats neem with jaggery, bitter and sweet together, on the understanding that the year will bring both. We do not make the gudi, and we do not make the sarees, the sweets or the gold coins that fill most Gudi Padwa gift lists. What we make is the piece that goes into the devghar or onto the shelf in the front room. It is the slower gift and the longer one: the puran poli is gone by evening and the murti is still there in ten years. Dagdusheth is the one a Maharashtrian house recognises The Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati in Pune is the Ganesha that Maharashtra actually pictures when it thinks of Ganesha: the broad face, the heavy crown, the wide open eyes. Give a general Ganesha and you have given an idol. Give this form and you have given something the household already has a relationship with, and that difference counts for more than a size upgrade. We keep it gold plated , in solid bras