Satyanarayan Puja in Mumbai, the city's favourite household katha

Satyanarayan Puja samagri list

• Satyanarayan or Vishnu image, and shaligram if kept
• Banana stems and mango leaves for the mandap
• Chowki with yellow or red cloth
• Kalash with coconut
• Tulsi leaves
• Panchamrit (milk, curd, ghee, honey, sugar)
• Sooji or wheat flour, ghee and sugar for sheera or panjiri
• Bananas (commonly in fives) and other fruits
• Yellow flowers and garlands
• Chandan, roli, haldi and akshat
• Betel leaves, supari, cloves and cardamom
• Janeu and yellow vastra
• Ghee diya, camphor and incense
• Havan samagri, if a havan is included
• Ganga jal

The Pandit confirms the final list for your family's vidhi, and can arrange the samagri in Mumbai on request.

Satyanarayan Puja vidhi, step by step

1. 1Mandap preparation. A chowki is set up and often decorated with banana stems and mango leaves. An image of Satyanarayan or Vishnu, a kalash and a shaligram (if kept) are placed on it.
2. 2Ganesh Pujan and sankalp. Ganesha is worshipped first. The Pandit then takes the sankalp in the name of the host family with gotra and intention.
3. 3Kalash, Navagraha and Panchlokpal pujan. As per the fuller vidhi, the kalash, Navagraha and guardian deities are invoked before the main worship.
4. 4Satyanarayan Puja. Lord Satyanarayan is offered panchamrit snan, yellow vastra, chandan, tulsi, flowers, incense, lamp and naivedya.
5. 5Satyanarayan Katha. The Pandit narrates the five chapters of the Vrat Katha while the family listens with folded hands, often holding a few grains of rice or flowers.
6. 6Havan (optional). Some families include a short havan after the katha, depending on regional custom.
7. 7Aarti and prasad. The family performs the Satyanarayan aarti, and prasad of sheera or panjiri, bananas, panchamrit and tulsi is distributed to all present.