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RitualFamily deityOnce per child

Naming Ceremony (Namakaranam)

The child is named on the eleventh or twenty-first day. A cradle, a decorated canopy and thamboolam for every guest.

14
Items needed
10
Essential
Cannot be skipped
₹9,467
Estimated total
₹984 for essentials only
6
Shops nearby
anywhere
Essentials available from at least one shop100%

Where to buy each item

Every item on the list, resolved to a shop that has it in stock.

A four-hop traversal. The trailing variable-length step is what lets “Chennai” match a florist registered in T. Nagar without you having to know that.Occasion → NEEDS → Product → AVAILABLE_AT → Florist → LOCATED_IN → Location → PART_OF*0..3

Fewest stops

Which single shop covers the most of this list — because visiting four shops on a festival morning is not realistic.

Traverse out to every vendor, then aggregate back per vendor while remembering which items were never covered. In SQL this needs a four-table join, a GROUP BY, and a correlated NOT EXISTS per checklist item.aggregate back over the traversal

4.5
9 of 14 items64.3%
Basket here₹669

Still needed elsewhere: Pink Rose, Jasmine Strand, Photo Frame Garland, Camphor +1 more

4.6
7 of 14 items50%
Basket here₹568

Still needed elsewhere: Pink Rose, Jasmine Strand, Photo Frame Garland, Camphor +3 more

4.5
6 of 14 items42.9%
Basket here₹566

Still needed elsewhere: Pink Rose, Jasmine Strand, Photo Frame Garland, Agarbathi +4 more

4.4
5 of 14 items35.7%
Basket here₹411

Still needed elsewhere: Agarbathi, Camphor, Kumkum, Turmeric Powder +5 more

4.2
5 of 14 items35.7%
Basket here₹427

Still needed elsewhere: Agarbathi, Camphor, Kumkum, Turmeric Powder +5 more

4.4
5 of 14 items35.7%
Basket here₹539

Still needed elsewhere: Pink Rose, Banana Leaves, Jasmine Strand, Photo Frame Garland +5 more

The full checklist

Grouped by category, essentials first. Quantities and notes come from the relationship between this occasion and each item.

The quantity, the unit, the importance and the note all live on the NEEDS relationship — not on the flower and not on the occasion. That is the clearest single argument for modelling this as a graph.Occasion → NEEDS → Product → BELONGS_TO → Category

Incense & Camphor(2)

Occasion Garlands(2)

Offerings & Prasad(4)

Ritual Textiles(1)

Sacred Leaves(1)

Sacred Powders(2)

Home Decoration(1)

Loose Flowers(1)

Others also bought

Discovered from real purchase history, not from anything an editor curated.

Three hops through the purchase history: what does this occasion need, who bought those things, and what else did those people buy.Occasion → NEEDS → Product ← BOOKS ← Customer → BOOKS → Product