Mangala Gauri Vratha - Dwitiya 2025 Date

About Mangala Gauri Vratha - Dwitiya

The second Tuesday of Shravana's Mangala Gauri Vrat — a fast newlywed brides traditionally keep for the first five years of marriage. The puja honours Gauri on the very weekday ruled by Mangala (Mars), turning a planet feared in match-making charts into a source of blessing.

The heart of today's worship is the katha of Dharmapala — a wealthy but childless man whose wife observed this vrat and was finally granted a virtuous son. Women read it aloud while offering sixteen of everything to the goddess: sixteen laddoos, sixteen fruits, sixteen bangles, sixteen betel leaves — echoing the sankalpa to keep the fast for sixteen Tuesdays in all. In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana the rite is called Sri Mangala Gowri Vratham and the bride's mother sends the puja items from her natal home. Because Shravana begins fifteen days earlier on the North Indian Purnimanta calendar than on the southern Amanta one, this 'second Tuesday' falls on different civil dates in Varanasi and in Hyderabad, though both households read the same Dharmapala story.