AADI PERUKKU – 2ND AUGUST 2021 – MONDAY

Aadi Perukku in this year is being celebrated on Monday, August 2nd, 2021.

The Hindu Tamil community celebrates the Aadi Perukku, or Aadi 18, as an auspicious festival. Aadi Perukku festival, also called Pathinettam Perukku, is a one-of-a-kind event honouring Tamil Nadu's river basins and major lakes. It is intended to celebrate the rising water levels during the monsoon, which is scheduled to begin on the 18th day of the Tamil calendar's Adi month.

India is a vibrant country whose rich culture and history have been preserved for decades and will continue to be preserved in the future. Festivals are a huge source of fun and happiness for people all around the world because they bring people together and bless them. One such festival celebrated with zeal and fervour is Aadi Perukku.

Aadi Perukku honours the life-sustaining properties of water, one of nature’s gifts to mankind. On this day Mother Nature is worshipped in the form of Amman deities. It is more like a thanksgiving ceremony for nature’s bountiful grace on mankind.

The month of Aadi is favourable for rooting, sowing and planting of seeds and other forms of vegetation. Aadi Perukku is therefore celebrated to express gratitude to Cauvery River and all the perennial river sources of the state of Tamil Nadu including the lakes. It is a special festival that is observed in Tamil Nadu and a unique phenomenon of South India.

Aadi Perukku is also called as ‘Padinettam Perukku’ as ‘Padinettu’ in Tamil means ‘eighteen’ and ‘perukku’ implies ‘a rising’. This water ritual is observed predominately by the women folk residing in the state of Tamil Nadu.

Special delicacies are prepared on the day and family members are joined by relatives and friends. People also prepare several varieties of rice including the popular ‘chithranam.’ Family members go on a picnic to riverbanks along with the food prepared. The riverbank or seashore picnic is a major event in some districts in Tamil Nadu on the day.

Special prayers and pujas are done in temples for a good harvest, constant supply of water and hassle free monsoon.

In some communities on Aadi Perukku day, the son-in-law is invited and is presented new clothes by parents.

Usually, during Aadi month, the newly wed brides spend the month at her parent’s home and on Aadi 18 Perukku, a gold coin is added to the thali or mangal sutra in some southern districts of the state.

LET  PROSPERITY,  HAPPINESS, HEALTH AND LONG PEACEFUL LIFE BE BESTOWED – LET THESE BE ‘PERUKATTUM’ THROUGH OUT OUR LIFE SPAN.

 


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