Thekua

(ठेकुआ)

Literal Meaning

A hard sweet of wheat flour and jaggery

Etymology & Sanskrit Root

A Hindi and Bhojpuri word for this sweet; the pages we read do not explain it.

Spiritual Insight & Context

A crisp sweet of wheat flour, jaggery and ghee, deep-fried. It is the best-known offering of Chhath Puja, made in a pure kitchen and shared afterwards as prasad.

Where Thekua Comes Up

Chhath Puja, the Festival of Surya Worship

The four-day festival of gratitude to Surya, the Sun God, observed with rigorous fasting and river-bank worship across Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal.

Topics

Chhath Puja Arghya Vidhi: Four Days, Water and the Sun

Chhath in order: Nahay Khay, Kharna, then standing in water to offer arghya to the setting and rising Sun, with the fast, the offerings and Chhathi Maiya.

Puja Vidhi