Anant Chaturdashi (Ganesha Visarjan)

Two things share the day. Vishnu as Ananta, the infinite, is worshipped and a fourteen-knotted thread tied, from the Mahabharata, where Krishna advised Yudhishthira to keep this vrat during the exile to recover what was lost. Separately it's the last day of Ganesh Utsav.

The Ananta thread is tied on the arm, men on the right, women on the left. And the ten-day Ganesha idols are taken in procession for immersion, the largest single day of visarjan.

Modak a final time; and for the Ananta vrat, wheat-flour preparations and puran poli.

The Ananta vrat is stronger in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Odisha. The Ganesh visarjan is the more visible half in Maharashtra. These are two observances on one day.