Pongal 2025, Thai Pongal 2025 ― Pongal is a very important festival. This festival associated with nature has been considered to have a lot of religious and cultural significance.
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Pongal is a Makar Sankranti festival. It is mainly a festival of four days.
In today’s publication we will know when is Pongal? When is Thai Pongal? Information about the four days of Pongal festival, importance of Pongal festival, when is Sankranti? Etcetera.
So, let’s start.
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Pongal 2025
Pongal is an important festival of Hindu religion. This festival is mainly celebrated in a very grand way in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
The New Year begins in Tamil Nadu with the festival of Pongal. Apart from Tamil Nadu, Tamil speaking people living in many countries of the world including Sri Lanka, Canada and America celebrate this festival with great enthusiasm.
Pongal is a four-day Sankranti festival. In the year 2025, Pongal festival will be celebrated from 13 January 2025 to 16 January 2025.
| Pongal 2025 date | 13 January 2025 to 16 January 2025. |
Let us now get information about the four days of Pongal festival.
1. Bhogi Pongal Festival 2025
Bhogi Pongal festival is celebrated on the first day of Pongal festival. The first day of Pongal, the Bhogi Pongal festival is dedicated to Lord Indra.
Lord Indra is worshiped on the day of Bhogi Pongal. Gratitude is expressed to Lord Indra for good rains and good harvest.
On this day people clean their houses and burn useless items.
Bhogi Pongal is on 13 January 2025, Monday.
| Bhogi Pongal 2025 date | 13 January 2025, Monday |
2. Thai Pongal 2025
Thai Pongal is the second day of the four-day Pongal festival. Thai Pongal is considered to be the most important festival of the entire Pongal festival.
In this way, the second day of Pongal festival is most important for the devotees.
Thai Pongal is celebrated as Sankranti festival. The way Makar Sankranti is celebrated in North Indian states. Similarly, in South Indian states, especially Tamil speaking people, celebrate Makar Sankranti as Thai Pongal.
Thai Pongal will be celebrated on Tuesday, January 14, 2025.
| Thai Pongal 2025 date | 14 January 2025, Tuesday |
On the day of Thai Pongal, a special type of dish called Pongal is prepared. To prepare Pongal, a new clay pot is taken, in which milk, jaggery and new crop rice are boiled together.
A special and sacred tradition is followed while preparing Pongal. In this, milk is boiled until the milk starts flowing out of the earthen vessel and starts falling down. This process is considered a symbol of material abundance and prosperity.
After Pongal is cooked, it is decorated with ghee, sugar, dry fruits like cashew nuts, raisins etc.
Lord Sun is worshiped on the day of Thai Pongal. Pongal prepared with complete purity is first offered to the Sun God. Surya Dev is thanked for the good harvest and his blessings.
After offering Pongal to Lord Surya, it is given to other members of the family as Prasad on banana leaves.
Let us now get information about the Sankranti moment on the day of Thai Pongal.
| Thai Pongal 2025 Sankranti moment | 14 January 2025, Tuesday 09:03 am |
For information about the time of Punya Kaal and Maha Punya Kaal on the day of Sankranti, see the post on Makar Sankranti of this site.
Mattu Pongal 2025
Mattu Pongal is celebrated on the third day of Pongal festival. On this day, cows, ox and bulls are decorated and worshipped.
Bullock race i.e. Jali Kattu is also organized on this day.
Mattu Pongal will be celebrated on Wednesday, January 15, 2025.
| Mattu Pongal 2025 date | 15 January 2025, Wednesday |
Kaanum Pongal 2025
Kaanum Pongal is celebrated on the fourth and last day of the four-day Pongal festival. On this day people decorate their houses with flowers, mango leaves and banana leaves. Toran gates are made.
On this day, various types of beautiful rangoli are made by women in the courtyards of their homes.
Kaanum Pongal will be celebrated on Thursday, January 16, 2025.
| Kaanum Pongal 2025 date | 16 January 2025, Thursday |
Towards which direction, the sun starts moving on Sankranti/Pongal?
On Pongal the Sun starts moving towards the north.
Pongal is celebrated in which state?
Pongal is mainly celebrated in the state of Tamilnadu. Along with other states, Pongal festival is celebrated wherever Tamil speaking people live in the country and abroad.
Pongal Picture
Here we have given some pictures related to Pongal.
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