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– According to traditional Vishu Kani decoration, take an uruli first. This can vary in diameter from a few inches to as long as 10 feet.
– Make a base of unakkalari (raw rice) in the uruli to serve as a bed for all the other ingredients.
– Keep a freshly washed and pleated kasavu pudava, which is the traditional white Kerala-style dhoti with golden embroidery
– Carefully keep all the other items – fruits like mango, grapes, apples and jackfruit, golden coloured cucumber, jaggery, areca nut, betel leaves, and a valkannadi – shining brass hand mirror
– Ramayanam or other holy scriptures engraved on palm leaves can also be placed in this uruli
– Next, place a split coconut, filled with oil and cotton wicks
– Keep a gold coin or gold ornament
– Also, keep other Vishu decoration items like kajal (kohl) and sindoor (vermillion)
– Then place a little rice, some flowers, and a silver coin in a small flat-bottomed vessel
– Farmers often place navadhanya or nine different seeds, which are sown after the Vishu Kani
– Keep clean water with some flowers in a pitcher beside the vessel
– Keep the Kani uruli in front of an image of Lord Vishnu or Lord Krishna
– Decorate the Kani uruli and the surroundings with Konnappoovu, known as golden shower cassia or Indian Laburnum flowers. Wrap the flowers around the Krishna idol as well.
– Keep a nilavilakku or bronze lamp in a manner that it emanates a golden-yellow hue light all around
– Finally, light the lamp with an incense stick to complete the traditional Vishu Kani decoration