Pooja Black Cloth 1 M
€3,85
Pooja Black Cloth 1 M is one metre of plain black cotton, the colour used for Shani and for the Ayyappa vratam. Enough to cover a small mandir shelf, wrap an offering or fold into an asan. Same-day delivery across the Utrecht region.
Description
Pooja Black Cloth 1 M is plain black cloth sold by the metre for ritual use. Cloth for a mandir is bought by colour rather than by pattern, and this is the one that particular rituals name outright.
Black belongs to Shani, spread on a Saturday when a Shani puja is done and used to wrap the sesame and iron offered with it. It is also the colour of the Ayyappa vratam, worn by devotees through the forty one day fast before the Sabarimala pilgrimage, and Panjab Supermarket keeps it on the shelf for both.
Why black rather than another colour? Colour is not decorative in a puja, it is part of the instruction. Black belongs to Shani and to the Ayyappa vratam, yellow to Vishnu and Brihaspati, red to the Devi. Follow whichever colour the ritual names.
Is one metre enough? For covering a small mandir shelf, wrapping an offering or folding an asan to sit on, yes. For draping a large murti or making a garment, buy more than one, because cut lengths cannot be joined invisibly.
The neutral option, white cloth cut to the same length, suits any puja that names no colour, and the wider range here holds the thali, the lamps and the powders. Wash it on its own the first time in case the dye runs, and dry it in the shade. Order online at Panjab Supermarket for same-day delivery across Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Leidsche Rijn, Vleuten, Maarssen, Zeist, Bunnik, IJsselstein, Vianen, and Culemborg. Free delivery on orders over 49 euros.
