Aadi Perukku 2025: Date, Rituals, Benefits, Celebration and Significance
Pathinettam Perukku is another name for Aadi Perukku. The purpose of this festival is to express gratitude to the monsoon season. On August 2, 2025, Aadi Perukku festival is going to be celebrated.
When is
Aadi Perukku 2025
?
Aadi Perukku, the Tami Festival will be celebrated on August 2, 2025.
Aadi Perukku 2025: Date and Time
Shubh Choghadiya on August 2, 2025:
07:12 AM TO 08:48 AM & 12:00 PM TO 01:36 PM
Amrit Chodghadiyaa on August 2, 2025:
01:36 PM TO 03:12 PM
Labh Choghadiya on August 2, 2025:
03:12 PM TO 04:48 PM
Aadi Perukku 2025: Significance
Aadi Perukku is one of the main festival which is celebrated by all the people belong to Tamil community living in India specially in the Tamil Nadu.
This day is celebrated to honor the water bodies specially in the monsoon season and this is also known as the thanksgiving festival of Tamil culture. On this auspicious day, people gather and cherish the water which is very necessary for the agriculture and life of the human beings.
In Tamil, Perukku translates as multiply or to increase and the festival wishes more rain, more crops, health and prosperity. People visit the nearby by river banks, show their gratitude to the water and offer their sincere prayers.
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This day also celebrates the power of feminine energy, water, nature, fertility, women and young girls.
Aadi Perukku 2025: Celebration
Thanks to Nature:
Farmers are grateful for the support that rain and rivers provide in producing food.
Gratitude to women power:
The day honors women, birth, fertility, water and family.
Well Being:
People pray for the good fortune and well being of the family. They also seek blessings of the Goddess for prosperity, and bountiful crops.
Cultural Celebration:
On this sacred day, neighbors and family get together, sing songs, and enjoy a special meal, cultures come together.
Benefits of celebrating this
Tamil Festival
"Aadi Perukku"
The festival brings calm and serenity to the home.
Helps in resolving financial and family conflicts.
It enhances husband and wife interactions.
It brings in rain and helps rural areas.
Aadi Perukku 2025: Rituals
On this auspicious occasion of Aadi Perukku, all of the family members, friends, and relatives gather to offer prayers for a plentiful crop during the monsoon season. Every lady prepares different rice varieties and dishes, like Chithranam, and serves them to friends, family, and other acquaintances. They build a special lamp out of rice flour and jaggery and cover it with mango leaves when they visit places that are close to rivers and lakes.
Place turmeric, yellow thread, and flowers beside the lamp. They light the earthen lamps and leave them in the flowing water in the river. To guarantee a consistent flow of water, specific prayers are offered at the temples. A lot of people invite their son-in-law and give him gifts, cash, food, and clothes. The newlyweds spend the day of Aadi Perukku at a temple.
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