If you’re preparing Navaratri at home and different calendars give you different deity names, offerings, or observances, the mismatch isn’t necessarily an error. Navaratri lives through regional, temple, sampradaya, and family traditions. Uniformity is the wrong test.
Your aim is a coherent observance: one calendar appropriate to your location, one devotional framework, and a daily routine your household can sustain. Settle those three things before you shop for offerings or circulate invitations.
Choose the tradition that will govern your nine days
The first practical question isn’t “Which online list is correct?” It is “Which tradition are we observing?” The forms of Devi and the corresponding naivedyam can differ by place and community; even the nine-offering patterns followed in South India vary with the goddesses being worshipped.
Day two shows why this matters. On Preeti Dwitiya, Brahmacharini may be worshipped within a Navadurga sequence, Balatripura Sundari within Navadevi Alankara Puja, and Tara within a Mahavidya framework. These aren’t three competing answers to one question. They belong to distinct devotional frameworks.
Use this order of precedence when calendars conflict:
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