This ceremony is generally performed on the Sunday preceding or following the Pongal feast.
On the third day, pongal (rice) is offered to the pots, and the wrist-threads are removed.
To Muneswara and Desamma pongal (cooked rice) is offered, and buffaloes are sacrificed to Poleramma.
In connection with the foregoing account, I am informed that, among the Nattar Kallans, the brother of a married woman must give her annually at Pongal a present of rice, a goat, and a cloth until her death.
A ceremony is generally celebrated in the seventh month of pregnancy, for which the husband's sister prepares pongal (cooked rice).
Calling various people by name, they expressed a hope that they would respect the gods, worship them, and offer to them pongal (boiled rice) and animal sacrifices.
The tribal deity of the Tsakalas is Madivalayya, in whose honour a feast, called Mailar or Mailar Pandaga, is held in January immediately after the Pongal festival.
A festival called Pongal is observed by Hindus on the first day of the Tamil month Tai, and derives its name from the fact that rice boiled in milk is offered to propitiate the Sun God.
Among the Vellalans, this is generally after the Pongal festival.
In addition, pongal (boiled rice) has to be offered, and by some a sheep or goat is sacrificed.
If the omens are favourable, a lamp made of rice-flour is lighted, and pongal (boiled rice) offered to it.
Similarly they observe Pongaland the Ayudha puja day.
If the omens are favourable, the joti is lighted, sheep and goats are killed, and pongal (rice) is offered to the joti.
The ceremonies close with prayers for good rain and fruitfulness among the flocks and herds, a wild dance by the Irula, and the boiling (called pongal, the same word as pongal the Tamil agricultural feast) of much rice in milk.
It is the custom on the Shevaroy hills, as well as the plains, to have a bull dance after the Pongal festival, and I had the pleasure of witnessing one in a Malaiali village.
Sembadavans who are ferrymen by profession do special worship to Ganga, the goddess of water, to whom pongal (rice) and goats are offered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pongal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
