Swarna Gowri Vratha

This Festival comes usually a day before Ganesh Chaturthi. This is widly celebrated in karnataka. For this festival the daughters of the house are invited along with their spouses and gifts are given.
For the festival an idol of Gowri is bought along with the idol of Ganesha.
Materials needed for this are:-

• haldhi kumkum,
• flowers,
• Pathri,
• geja vastra,
• gandha
• friuts etc for naividya.
• Keep a thread yellowed with turmeric and with nine knots also ready. One for all the savashnis called Dhora
  

A mantap is readied and decorated.
Clean the place where Gowri is to be kept; [select a proper place as the Gowri my have to be kept for a couple of days].
Draw a rangoli and place a plank or a mantap and put a handfull rice, on it. Over this keep the Gowri.
To the right of the Gowri keep pan /spari and a friut.
To the left or front keep kadole, karimani toe rings haldhi kumkum, kajal and a small comb.
Do all this on the morning of the puja after a oil bath and when there is no rahu kala or yamaganda. When you start the puja, keep ready all the items mentioned , plus water, panchamrutha or raw milk, or Madhuparka ie a mix of honey curds and ghee. A little of this will do.
Start the puja first with a flower sprinkle a little water then milk and water again. This symbalises of giving bath. Sprinkle haldhi powder or apply to the two sides of gowri face near the ear. geja vastra.[Symbalises clothing the Gowri] now again sprinle haldhi powder then gandha and kum kum to be applied
to the the forehead, next come the flowers. Put a garland and put the flowers reciting the Ashtothara stothra. Next will be doopa, deepa and naividya. Perform puja to the Dhora(thread) coloured yellow with nine Knots as many as the number of women and children in the house. Keep this in front of gowri and do pua to this too. After this perform arathi.
Next give haladhi kumkum and flowers and thambula with dhakshina and a coconut or friut to all the Sumangalis and also tie the dora, while tieing dora on the right hand give a friut to keep in the hand while tieing the dora. Give a maradha bhagana with a choli or saree /blouse.In the evenig too a few sumangalis may be invited and pan supari, with a coconut can be given. In evening light lamps and perform arathi.
Swarna gowri is kept along with Ganesha for 3,5,7 9 and 11 days as per the convenience of the family. Some people to send them away on the same day.
It is said Gowri is on a visit to her parents house and Ganesha comes to take her back home. therefore the custom of inviting the daughters of the family to paticipate in the puja.
For lunch along with the festival food of 2 kosambris 2 bhajis and kadi/pitla POLI and kheer is made. A banana leaf is spread and all items served and offerd to Gowri and on the same leaf the Savshni is asked to partake her food.