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Write Tamil Pongal greetings for Bhogi, Thai Pongal, Maattu Pongal and Kaanum Pongal, with transliteration and name insert.
This generator writes a Pongal greeting for whichever of the four days you are sending it on — Bhogi, Thai Pongal, Maattu Pongal or Kaanum Pongal — in Tamil script, with a Roman transliteration and an optional English line, and your names already in place. It uses the traditional phrasing people actually use, including the shout Pongalo Pongal and the line 'Thai pirandhaal vazhi pirakkum'. It also lays out the four dates for any year, counted from the 14 or 15 January start of the Tamil month of Thai.
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Bhogi, Thai Pongal, Maattu Pongal and Kaanum Pongal each carry their own meaning, so each gets its own wording.
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Tamil script is sent as UCS-2, which allows only 70 characters in a single SMS — the counter shows how many parts a greeting will cost.
Bhogi, when old things are cleared out and a bonfire is lit; Thai Pongal, the main day when new rice and milk are boiled over in a fresh pot; Maattu Pongal, which thanks the cattle; and Kaanum Pongal, the visiting day. They run on consecutive days starting from the first day of the Tamil month of Thai.
Thai Pongal falls on 14 or 15 January, the first day of the Tamil month of Thai, when the sun moves into Makara. Bhogi is the day before, Maattu Pongal the day after and Kaanum Pongal the day after that — enter a year above to see all four dates.
'இனிய பொங்கல் நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்' — Iniya Pongal nalvazhthukkal. On the main day people also call out 'பொங்கலோ பொங்கல்' (Pongalo Pongal) as the pot boils over, and the traditional line is 'தை பிறந்தால் வழி பிறக்கும்' — when Thai is born, a way is born.
They fall on the same solar transit, when the sun enters Makara around 14 January, and both mark the harvest. The observances differ: Pongal is a four-day Tamil festival centred on the boiling-over pot and the cattle, while Makar Sankranti is marked in other states with kites, til-gud sweets and river bathing.