Yellamadevi Pooja

1. Yellamadevi Pooja

Pooja Samagri: 

• Flowers
• Fruits
• Saree
• Baaginada Items (Mara, etc...

Procedure:

Day before the Pooja - Give Haldi (from home) and coconut oil to the lady invited for the pooja. She is going to be treated as devi. This lady should be from the lower cast.
Day of the Pooja - 

1. Take head bath and everybody in the house should observe fast until Devi has her food.
2. Fast until the lady has the lunch
3. Prepare the lunch. Include Holige, Ambode
4. Perform Yellamma devi Pooja.
• Do regular pooja with haldi, kumkum, flowers etc
• Do Ashtottara
• Play Yellamma Songs
• Hurna aarti should be done
5. Once the invitee arrives, do the following
• Arrange for lunch
• Do the Paada pooja. Make sure to give saree with blouse piece, bangles, haldi - kumkum and flowers.
• Udi tumbabeku. Raw rice, coconut half with fried gram, jaggery and dried dates. Offer all this to the devi (the lady who has been invited).
• All members of family shall do namaskaara to the devi and take her blessings
• Only after the invitee has had food, all the family members can break fast and have lunch