Mangalvar (Tuesday) Vrat - Vrat Vidhi
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 how to keep a sacred fast: morning sankalpa, the deity's puja, the day's food discipline, the katha and aarti, and paran at the right time. Most vrats allow phalahar (fruits, milk, sabudana, kuttu, singhara, samak, sendha namak). Some are nirjala. Ekadashi drops grain; Santoshi Mata drops sour food; Ravivar vrat drops salt.
A vrat is bhakti and restraint, not hardship. Children, the elderly, pregnant women and the unwell should soften the fast. Parampara comes first. Pick a Dev or Devi for the day, fast type, food rules, paran, mantra, katha and aarti.
This is not a full puja manual. Worship steps are Puja Vidhi. Gather items from Puja Samagri. Read the story on Vrat Katha.
