Kanjianla Puja Navami
13 Nov, 2025
Thursday
Kanjianla Puja Navami on 13-11-2025
Tithi Begin Time:
Krishna Paksha Navami: Nov 12 10:58 PM – Nov 13 11:34 PM
Tithi End Time:
Krishna Paksha Dashami: Nov 13 11:34 PM – Nov 15 12:50 AM
Nakshatra, Muhurat (Start Time):
Magha Nakshatra: Nov 12 06:35 PM – Nov 13 07:38 PM
Nakshatra, Muhurat (End Time):
Purva Phalguni Nakshatra: Nov 13 07:38 PM – Nov 14 09:20 PM
About Kanjianla Puja Navami 2025
Introduction to Kanjianla Puja(କାଞ୍ଜି ଅଁଳା ଓଷା)
Kanjianla is also one of the festivals of Odia people. This puja is basically done for Shasthi Devi or Sati Devi. It is believed that she is worshipped for the safety of children in the family. Kanjianla is a regional festival of Odisha. It is a type of fast. Women observe fast and do special puja in their colony or village area.
Before Kanjianla Puja, women prepare special dishes for Naivedya like "Chakuli Pitha" which is a form of dosa, boiled rice + kanji made in curd and fish curry these are the main ones for prasad. But after these, you can also add other things for prasad.
Kanji Recipe
Kanji recipe is made with different ingredients. But to make this kanji recipe, the following things are required like:
Rice, curd, vegetables like radish, raw papaya, cauliflower, beans, carrot, pumpkin.
Curry leaves, five futon, dry chilli, asafoetida are added in the tempering. The tempering is cooked in mustard oil.
Method of Making Kanji
Kanjianla Puja Vidhi
- Pita Sukhua Bohu (Dry Fish Bride) Another thing that is worshipped in this world is Pita Sukhua, it is a type of dry fish which is bitter in taste so it is called Pita Sukhua. Pita means bitter and Sukhua means dry fish. Bohu means bride. This is a very ancient regional tradition.
- Women take 7 Pita Sukhua and they are dressed in small clothes then dipped in turmeric powder and they are decorated like a bride with different types of makeup materials like sindoor, kajal, kumkum. They are decorated with branches of Poi Saag (Malabar spinach) as ornaments.
- At the puja place make a small pond with mud and water. A small live fish is also kept in that pond which keeps swimming around the pond.
- Then the devotees offer naivedya like rice, kanji, and Chakuli pitha, vegetables mix curries, Manda Pitha, Kakara Pitha etc. to Shasthi Devi.
- The prasad was distributed among all the people present at the puja place. After this the women removed the puja chowki from the road and went to their home.
- Kanjianla is one of the typical rural festivals of Odia culture. The new generation is not aware of such worship, due to which most of the people do not know about the process of Kanjianla(କାଞ୍ଜି ଅଁଳା ଓଷା).
- Whatever the meaning, someone may find this festival a joke. But it is an entertaining festival of Odia people and to keep such a festival alive, it should be celebrated during the festive period so that your future generation can also know what is Kanjianla Nabami and what are the rituals of this festival.
