Aadi Perukku 2025: Date, Importance & Rituals

Aadi Perukku is the most unique and joyous celebration filled festival of Tamil Nadu. It is the period when the whole family goes around the rivers and offers a prayer to nature to give water. Aadi Perukku in the year 2025 will be celebrated on Sunday, August 3, 2025 (18th day of Tamil month Aadi). This is the reason why this festival is also famously known as Aadi 18 festival.

This day is especially dedicated to water worship. Water means life to Tamil culture and rivers are sanctified. On this day flowers, rice and lamps are given to rivers and lakes to seek a joyful and a prosperous life. This article will talk of all that there is to know about Aadi Perukku 2025, its meaning, rituals, history and the reason why it is so important.

Aadi Perukku Date 2025

• Festival Name: Aadi Perukku / Aadi 18

• Date: Sunday, August 3, 2025
• Tamil Month: Aadi (18th Day)
• Tithi Timing: Based on local sunrise and river rituals

This date is fixed according to the Tamil calendar. Aadi Perukku is being celebrated without fail on the 18th day of Aadi month and thus it is easy and an easy to remember celebration.

What is Aadi Perukku?

Aadi Perukku, Padinettam Perukku is also the thanksgiving festival of Tamil culture. It is a festival to cherish water that is very necessary to agriculture and life. Perukku is a Tamil word and translates as multiply or to increase and the festival wishes more rain, more crops, health and prosperity.

This festival is mostly in the times of Monsoon when the rivers are full and people express their gratitude by making the river banks pleasing and offer special food offerings and prayers. It also glories the feminine power of nature, water and fertility, thus is significant to the women and young girls.

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Significance of the Aadi Perukku of the Tamil culture

1. Thanks to Nature: Farmers appreciate the contribution of rivers and rain, to help them make food.

2. Celebrating Women: The day rejoices in women, birth and family.
3. Good wishes: individuals offer prayers for fine harvests, prosperity, and good family fortunes.
4. Cultural Oneness: Cultures are united as families and neighbors meet, sing songs, share a special food.

Aadi Perukku Rituals and Traditions

It is happy and easy to observe the Aadi Perukku rituals. This is the way it is normally done:

1. Riverbank Worship

At early dawn of the day people visit rivers or lakes.Women offer turmeric water, flowers and rice to the water sources. They offer the items while praying to rivers and thanking nature for blessings.

2. Special Food Offerings

Families cook a variety of rice dishes called "Kalandha Sadham" like:

• Lemon rice
• Tamarind rice
• Coconut rice
• Sweet Pongal

These foods are given out among relatives and the neighbors on the river side.

3. Lighting Lamps

Lamps made of clay are floated in water to symbolize hope, blessings, and light in life.

4. For Married Women and Girls

Newly married women are given gifts by their in-laws. Teenage girls and young women wear new dresses, apply turmeric, and pray for happy family life and a good life partner.

5. Group Prayers

They collect villagers and townsfolk to sing, chant mantra and pray collectively to rain, health and harvest.

Such are the Aadi Perukku practices that are full of celebrations and bring harmony between families and communities.

The Spiritual Meaning of Aadi Perukku

• Image of Shakti (Divine Feminine Power)

• Idolatry of the Mother Nature as water
• Prayers about rain, growth and fertility
• Family improvements and healthy family relationships
• Sign of devotion and gratitude

The Current Celebration of Aadi Perukku

In this contemporary age, Aadi Perukku is observed even in the homes of those people who stay in separate cities or in other countries. They put flowers in the water pots, light lamps, special food cooked and place it in a small bowl of water in case there is no river or lake nearby.

It is also a popular festival due to social media, and Tamil people everywhere share it on their accounts and relate to each other through their common tradition.

Well-known Temples to discover Aadi Perukku

A lot of prayers and events are conducted in many temples during this festival; particularly around riversides. 

• Kaveri River banks near Trichy
• Amma Mandapam in Srirangam
• Thanjavur and Kumbakonam riverbanks
• Temples near Vaigai River in Madurai

Advantages of Aadi perukku celebrations

• Brings peace and tranquility in the household

• Helps overcome family problems and money issues
• Improves relationships between husband and wife
• Attracts rainfall and supports farming communities

Conclusion 

Aadi Perukku festival is not just a cultural fest but a great celebration of gratitude, togetherness and love towards nature. It puts a simple reminder stating that water is holy, rivers are givers of life, and family is our power. It does not mean that a person cannot celebrate Aadi Perukku 2025 in your heart when you are living in a city or village, you are close to a river or far away, or you are in a far-away land in general.

FAQs 

Q1. What is the date of Aadi Perukku 2025?

Ans. The Aadi Perukku 2025 will be held on 3 August, 2025, a Sunday.

Q2. What is so special about Aadi Perukku?

Ans. It is marked as a way to appreciate the giving of rivers and nature in the form of water, rain, crops and the welfare of the family.

Q3. Which rituals are performed on Aadi 18?

Ans. People go to worship on the banks of rivers, they cook rice items, light lamps, and offer prayers so that they can live a healthy and rich life.

Q4. Is Kari Aadi Perukku a women's festival?

Ans. No, but it emphasizes the feminine energy, and it is a special event to the women yet all the members of the family are involved.

Q5. Is it possible to celebrate Aadi Perukku at home?

Ans. Yes. You can give water in a bowl, light a lamp, simply cook the rice dishes and then you can thank nature in your own home.

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