காரடையா நோன்பு - கதையும், பூஜையும் - Karadaiyan Nonbu 

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Karadaiyan Nonbu story
Karadaiyan Nombu is a major Tamil festival which is celebrated at the time on Meena Sankranti or Sankramana which marks the beginning of the twelfth and last month i.e Maasi ends and Panguni starts in Hindu Solar Calendar.Karadai (Karadaiyan Nonbu Recipes) is the name of a unique Nivedyam prepared on this day and Nombu means Vratham or Upavasam.
On Karadayan Nonbu day women worship Goddess Gowri and offer her Karadiyan Nombu Nivedyam. After Puja women tie the sacred yellow cotton thread known as Manjal Saradu or Nonbu Charadu for well-being of their husband.
Married women observe it for long lives of their husband while unmarried girls observe it to get ideal person as their husband. On this day married women and young girls wear yellow robes and pray to Hindu Goddesses for long life for their husband or to get ideal person as their husband in the future.
The fast for Karadayan Vritham is observed from sunrise on the transition day when God Surya moves from Kumbha Rashi to Meena Rashi.
Karadaiyan Nombu is also known as "SAVITHIRI VRATAM".
Savithiri was the daughter of King Asrapathi.Savitri is so beautiful and pure, she intimidates all the men in the vicinity. When she reaches the age of marriage, no man asks for her hand,so her father tells her to find a husband on her own.When her father asked her who she wished to marry she pointed to Sathyavan who lived in the forest. Despite being warned by Narada that he would die within a year of marriage, she married Sathayavan and she goes to live in the forest.
Three days before the foreseen death of Satyavan, Savitri takes a vow of fasting and vigil(a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep,to keep watch or pray).The morning of Satyavan’s predicted death, Savitri asks for her father-in-law’s permission to accompany her husband into the forest.They go and while Satyavan is splitting wood, he suddenly becomes weak and lays his head in Savitri’s lap. Yama himself, the god of Death, comes to claim the soul of Satyavan. Savitri follows Yama as he carries the soul away. When he tries to convince her to turn back
she praises obedience to Dharma, then friendship with the strict, then Yama himself for his just rule, then Yama as King of Dharma, and finally noble conduct with no expectation of return.Impressed at each speech, Yama praises both the content and style of her words and offers any boon," except the life of Satyavan".
She first asks for eyesight and restoration of the kingdom for her father-in-law, then a hundred sons for her father, and then a hundred sons for herself and Satyavan.The last wish creates a dilemma for Yama, as it would indirectly grant the life of Satyavan. However, impressed by Savitri's dedication and purity, he offers one more time for her to choose any boon, but this time omitting "except for the life of Satyavan". Savitri instantly asks for Satyavan to return to life.
Karadaiyan Nonbu procedures
Wash your hair, and wear a madisaar (nine yards saree).
Do not eat leftovers.
Make both sweet and savory Adai/Kozhakattai (Karadaiyan Nonbu Recipes)
Draw some Kolam in Pooja Room.
Place the manja charadu (yellow string), fruits, and butter in front of god.
Tie the first charadu on Devi, with flowers or fresh manjal.
Tie the second one on yourself, and repeat:
Karadaiyan Nonbu Mantra
"Urugadha Vennaiyum Or Adaiyum Naan Tharuven
Orukkalum En Kanavar Ennai Piriyadirukkanum"
Serve the Adai as neiveythiyam to God.
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