- By Kashish Rai
- Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:05 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Aadi Perukku 2025 or Pathinettam Perukku a significant Tamil festival is dedicated to honouring the life-giving force of water and the sacred Cauvery River. This significant festival takes place in the sacred Tamil month of Aadi. On this auspicious day, families, particularly women, gather at riverbanks to offer heartfelt prayers, prepare special dishes and float flowers or lamps, seeking prosperity, fertility and blessings for a bountiful harvest. Marking new beginnings, Aadi Perukku is an ideal time to embark on fresh ventures, sow seeds or initiate family functions. This vibrant festival showcases gratitude to nature, particularly water, and celebrates the feminine energy that nourishes life. It's a time for spiritual connection, family bonding and rejoicing in the beauty of nature.
Check out all the significant details regarding the date, significance and rituals associated with this Tamil festival below:
Aadi Perukku 2025: Date
This year, Aadi Perukku falls on 2nd August 2025, Saturday.
Aadi Perukku 2025: Significance
Aadi Perukku, celebrated on the 18th day of the Tamil month Aadi, holds deep cultural and spiritual importance in South Indian tradition. This sacred festival honours rivers and the life-giving force of water, particularly the Cauvery River. It is a day when families, especially women, offer thanks to nature by performing rituals along riverbanks, floating lamps and flowers, and preparing traditional dishes. The festival is believed to bring prosperity, fertility and success in new ventures. Aadi Perukku also symbolises abundance and renewal, making it an ideal time to begin agricultural activities or set new personal intentions. Spiritually, it strengthens one’s connection to the divine feminine and promotes gratitude for nature’s nurturing energy and seasonal blessings.
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Aadi Perukku celebrates rivers and nature’s blessings, symbolising prosperity, fertility and fresh beginnings through heartfelt rituals along sacred waterbanks. (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Aadi Perukku 2025: Rituals
The rituals of Aadi Perukku beautifully reflect gratitude towards water and nature’s abundance. On this auspicious day, families, especially women and children, gather along the banks of rivers, lakes or ponds. They bring offerings such as turmeric, kumkum, flowers, rice and fruits, and perform simple pujas to honour the life-giving force of water. Lamps are lit and gently floated on the river as a symbol of hope, wishes and blessings for a prosperous life. Many women dress in traditional attire, tie yellow threads around their wrists for protection and pray for harmony, fertility, and strength in family life.
Another important ritual involves preparing a variety of rice-based dishes, traditionally known as "chitrannam", such as lemon rice, coconut rice, curd rice and tamarind rice, and offering them to the river before sharing with loved ones. Devotees also chant prayers to Goddess Cauvery and other deities associated with nature. Farmers treat this day as a celebration of the monsoon's arrival and the nourishment it brings to the soil. The collective energy of community prayers, shared meals and acts of devotion brings people together in reverence, joy and gratitude for the season’s blessings.
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