Vat Savitri Vrat 2027

How to observe Vat Savitri Vrat

1. 1Bathe early, wear festive clothes and solah shringar, and take the sankalp.
2. 2Fast through the day; many keep it nirjala.
3. 3Take the puja thali to a banyan (vat) tree and offer water, roli, akshat, flowers, soaked black gram, fruit and sweets at its roots.
4. 4Wind raw cotton thread around the trunk while walking around it 7, 21 or 108 times.
5. 5Read or listen to the Savitri-Satyavan Katha.
6. 6Offer soaked gram and gifts (baayna) to your mother-in-law and seek the blessings of elders.
7. 7Break the fast after the puja, traditionally with soaked gram and water, or in the evening.

In Maharashtra, Gujarat and parts of the South the same vrat is kept fifteen days later, on Jyeshtha Purnima (Vat Purnima).

Samagri (what you need)

• Raw cotton thread (white, red or yellow)
• Roli, akshat and haldi
• Soaked black gram (chana)
• Fruits such as mango and lychee
• Bamboo hand fan
• Lota of water
• Flowers
• Solah shringar items
• Diya and incense
• Puri and sweets