Manabasa Gurubar Dates 2022| Laxmi Puran

 Manabasa gurubara or margasira gurubara is the most popular and traditonal festival of Odisha. Goddess Laxmi worshiped in this brata. This brata is observed for good health and wealth as Goddess Laxmi is the Goddess of wealth.

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Manabasa gurubara 2021 Dates

Manabasa Gurubar is observed in the month of Margasira (November-December). The Thurs days in the month of Margasira are celebrated as Manabasa Gurubara.

There are 5 Thurs Days that fall on the month of Margasira in 2022 .

DATES OF MANABASA GURUBARA 2021
Manabasa Gurubara Prathama pali	10 November 2022
Manabasa Gurubara Dwitiiya pali	17 November 2022
Manabasa Gurubara Trutiya pali	24 November 2022
Manabasa Gurubara Chaturth pali	1 December 2022
Manabasa Gurubara Pancham pali	8 December 2022

Mythology behind Manabasa Gurubara

There is a very moral story behind this brata, which gives a very important social message. This total story of this brata is based on a book named Laxmi Purana.

According to this book, Goddess Laxmi visited the nearest villages which are around Srimandira Puri with the permission of her husband and brother-in-law. On every Thurs day of Margasira Month, she visited the nearest area to see how her devotees treat her on that day. When she reached she was about to know that no general people treated her as per the rule but at the same time a scheduled tribe woman (chandaluni)  named Sriya was ready to welcome her as per the rituals. 

Goddess Laxmi happily visited her house and blessed her with wealth, a palace, and kids. At the same time, her husband God Jagannath, and brother-in-law God Balabhadra visited the forest and saw Mata Laxmi inside the house of a Chandaluni as at that time the people were treated as untouched. 

They the two brothers decided to remove Goddess Laxmi from Sree Mandira and they also do so. But at the time when Goddess Laxmi left Sree Mandira, she cursed that you people will not get any food and water for 12 years. When I whom you called chandaluni will give food to you people only then you will be able to eat.

After this, Lakshmi Ji left the temple and started living by building a royal palace near the sea. Due to Lakshmi ji's curse, both brothers did not get any food and water, both of them even had to beg.

  In the end, after suffering a lot, both people reached the palace of Lakshmi Ji, for begging. Lakshmi Ji recognized them and give them good clothes to wear and food to eat. 

Both the brothers had understood their mistake, both of them were very sorry and went to Lakshmi ji and prayed for forgiveness and everyone happily returned to Shri Mandir. 

Social messages in Laxmi Purana

There are so many social messages in this mythology.

Build a healthy society

There are so many rules and regulations that help to build a healthy society and family.

Respect to elders

This mythology teaches us how Goddess Laxmi respected her husband and brother-in-law so that she left the house with their respect.

Women Empowerment and importance

Women are a very important part of the family and without them, a home can't be a sweet home. 

No caste system in society

This is the important message in this mythology that all the people in the society should get the same respect. There should be no lower or upper according to their caste.

Rituals and celebration of Manabasa Gurubara

There are so many rituals and rules to observe this brata.

Cleaning house and Draw jhoti

A day before this brata means on Wednesday the house cleaned very neatly. 

Then grind the soaked rice, different types of patterns, flowers(mostly lotus flower), and footprints of Goddess Laxmi drawn on the floor with the rice paste called jhoti or chita. 

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Puja Bidhi of Manabasa Gurubara

1. Morning-Puja/Bala Bhog

Laddies wear white sarees with red border 

On Puja Day ladies wake up early in the morning, take a holy bath and then wear white sarees with red borders. 

Prepaired Puja Astana

Then they place the idol of Sri Mahalakshmi on a small plank at the Puja place called Puja Astan for maa Laxmi. Normally the idol of maa Laxmi is made up of brass and the seating place is also made with brass or wood. Then they decorated the puja Astan with flowers.

Normally it is believed that the white color is the favorite color of Mata  Laxmi. So all types of things used for maa Laxmi like flowers, prasad should be white in color.

Offered Bala bhoga

They then offered Dhupa, Dipa, sandal paste, and sindur to maa Laxmi and then offered different kinds of fruits as prasad which is called Bala bhoga.

Morning puja ends here.

2. Afternoon Puja / Sankudi Bhog

Then they start preparations for the afternoon puja. In the afternoon puja, rice, mixed vegetable curry, and saga are offered to Goddess Laxmi which are made up of without onion and garlic.

In this puja, they recite the manabasa gurubara folk song called Laxmi Purana. Then they offered repaired things to Goddess Laxmi as prasad.

After puja ends here. After the afternoon pooja ladies break their fast and take prasad as their food.

3. Evening Puja / Poda Pitha

        In the evening people offered dhupa, Dipa, and naibaidya.

They offered chhena pana and Poda pitha as prasad.

Poda pitha

Poda pitha is prepared from rice and black gram. Both are soaked and prepared a smooth paste from them. Then it cooked like a pancake with stuffing grated coconut and jaggery.

Manabasa

Mana means a bowl used for measurement and Basa means seat down. On the last Thursday of the month Margasira the ritual occurs called Manabasa.

People filled paddy inside the mana. Also, they make a small stage with paddy and keep the mana on it. They keep the Idol of Goddess Laxmi and elephants on it. Decorated the Stage with Marigold flowers. Then they offered dhupa, dipa, and naibaidya to Goddess Laxmi.

Manabasa Gurubar Prasad

Mandapitha

Manda pitha is the main offering of this brata. Beside it bara, chakuli, kakara and atakali also offered in this festival.

Mandapitha is a steamed dish made with rice flour. Its stuffing is made up of grated coconut, curd (chhena), and jaggery. 

Manda pitha

Laxmi Purana PDF

The song recited in this brata is called Laxmipurana which was written by Balaram Dash. According to Laxmipurana without reading this the puja is incomplete and one who recited this Purana in front of others can get salvation. 

Below you can find the PDF of Laxmi Purana.