Mangalvar (Tuesday) Vrat हनुमान जी
The Tuesday fast for Hanuman Ji — for strength, protection and relief from obstacles.
Vrat mantra
ॐ हं हनुमते नमः
Om Ham Hanumate Namah
What you can eat — and what to avoid
✓ You can have
- Single evening meal: sweet food — gud-chana, boondi laddu, wheat-gud items (many keep it without salt)
- Fruits and fresh fruit juices
- Milk, curd, paneer, butter, ghee
- Sabudana — khichdi, kheer or vada
- Kuttu (buckwheat) and singhara flour rotis / puris
- Samak (barnyard millet) rice
- Makhana, dry fruits and nuts
- Potato, sweet potato, arbi — cooked with sendha namak
- Sendha namak (rock salt) only
- Tea, coffee or coconut water in moderation
✗ Avoid
- Salt in the evening vrat meal (per common tradition)
- All grains — wheat, rice, semolina (sooji), besan, oats
- Pulses and legumes — dal, chana, rajma, soy
- Regular table / sea salt (use only sendha namak)
- Onion and garlic
- Non-vegetarian food and eggs
- Alcohol and tobacco
- Heavy spices — keep to jeera, kali mirch, green chilli
Step-by-step vrat vidhi
Sankalpa — the vrat morning
Wake early, bathe and wear clean clothes. With water, akshat and a flower in the right palm, state your name, the vrat (Mangalvar (Tuesday) Vrat), its count if it is a series, and your prayer — then release the water.
Morning puja
Bathe early, wear red/clean clothes, offer sindoor, red flowers, and a diya of chameli oil to Hanuman Ji; begin with smarana of Shri Rama.
Keep the fast through the day
Keep the fast as prescribed — day fast · one evening meal (sweet — gud, no salt by many traditions). Spend free moments in japa of "Om Ham Hanumate Namah", and keep the mind sattvik: no anger, gossip or harsh speech.
Katha & evening puja
Recite the Hanuman Chalisa (and Bajrang Baan on special need), read the Mangalvar vrat katha, offer boondi/besan laddu bhog and sing the aarti.
Paran — breaking the fast
In the evening after Hanuman puja, Chalisa and aarti — a sweet meal, traditionally with gud (jaggery) and wheat; many keep it salt-free.
Daan & prasad
Share the prasad with everyone present and give some daan (food, fruit or dakshina) as per capacity — the vrat is completed by giving.
Special rules for this vrat
- Keep cleanliness and brahmacharya discipline on the vrat day.
- Hanuman worship always begins with Shri Rama smarana — "Shri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram".
- Offer the chola (sindoor + chameli oil) on Tuesday or Saturday if your tradition does.
Family and regional traditions (parampara) vary — where yours differs, follow your parampara. Children, the elderly, pregnant women, and anyone unwell or on medication should keep a softened vrat (fruit and milk) or skip it — a vrat is bhakti and restraint, never hardship to the body.
Choose another vrat
What is a Vrat Vidhi?
A vrat vidhi is the procedure for keeping a sacred fast — from the morning sankalpa (vow), the deity's puja, the discipline of the fast through the day, the katha (vrat story) and aarti, to the paran (breaking of the fast) at its proper time. Each vrat has its own food rules: most allow phalahar (fruits, milk, sabudana, kuttu and singhara flour, samak rice, with sendha namak only), some are kept nirjala (without even water, like Karwa Chauth), and a few carry one defining rule — no grains on Ekadashi, nothing sour on the Santoshi Mata vrat, no salt on the Ravivar vrat.
Pick a Dev or Devi to see the complete vidhi of their vrat — the day, the fast type, what you can eat and what to avoid, the paran rule, mantra, katha and aarti — and use the linked samagri checklist where one exists. A vrat is bhakti and self-restraint, never hardship: children, the elderly, pregnant women and the unwell should keep a softened form, and family traditions (parampara) always come first.