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Festivals
Kept on a date the whole community observes together. Each one carries its own list, its own quantities, and its own reasons.
Item counts come from counting each occasion's NEEDS relationships, not from a stored column.Occasion → NEEDS → Product
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Five days of lamps. The largest single spike in demand for diyas, oil, marigold and rangoli powder in the…
Eleven days from installation to immersion. Durva grass in bunches of twenty-one and red hibiscus are…
Nine nights, and in the south nine days of golu display. A different colour is kept each day, which makes the…
The harvest festival. Rice is boiled over in a new clay pot at sunrise, and sugarcane and turmeric plants are…
The tenth day, closing Navratri. Tools, books and instruments are worshipped before being taken up again.
A night-long vigil with abhishekam every three hours. Bilva leaves and vibuthi in quantity, and nothing that…
Krishna’s birth at midnight. Tiny footprints are drawn from the doorway to the altar, and butter and tulsi…
New year in the Deccan. Mango leaves at the door and a preparation combining all six tastes.
Ten days, and a fresh flower carpet laid at the threshold each morning — the single largest loose-flower…
Rows of clay lamps along every wall and threshold. Second only to Diwali for diya and oil demand in the south.
Books and instruments are placed before the goddess and left untouched for the day. White flowers throughout.
A thread tied on the wrist, sweets exchanged, and a small aarti performed with the plate.