Sabudana Khichdi is a dish of soaked tapioca pearls (sabudana) cooked with peanuts, potato and mild spices, eaten across India by Hindus observing a vrata (religious vow fast), most prominently during the nine nights of Navratri. It belongs to a broader category of foods, including grains such as buckwheat and amaranth, permitted during a fast that excludes ordinary cereals, pulses and certain vegetables, allowing observant fasters to eat a filling meal that still conforms to the fast's restrictions.
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Origin RegionIndia, eaten across regions by Hindus observing a vrata fast, most prominently during Navratri. 1 Use
OccasionNavratri and other Hindu vrata fasts 1 Meaning
Symbolic MeaningMade from tapioca pearls, eaten during Hindu fasting days, vrat, when grains are avoided. 1 Status
Status TodayEaten specifically to observe religious fasting rules that permit certain non grain foods. 1 Connections
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This source names India directly: "potato and mild spices, eaten across India by Hindus observing a vrata (religious vow fast), most prominently during the nine nights of Navratri."
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
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Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
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Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
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1. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005s.v. vrata; Navratri fasting foodView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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