Shubh Ekadash
Eleven diyas, hand-moulded from cow dung. Unlike a clay diya, it burns down along with the wick and leaves only ash — so there is nothing to wash, store or discard afterwards.
The lamp is an offering, not decoration
Deepa is one of the offerings named in the puja sequence itself — it appears in the five-offering form and again in the sixteen. Lighting it is a step in the vidhi, at a fixed point, not something added to the room around it.
Lamps are lit in counts, not one at a time
A household lighting a row at the threshold, one at the tulsi and one at the door is already past a single diya. Eleven is the count this box is built to, so an evening of lighting is not rationed. Ekadash is simply the word for eleven.
Oil or ghee, a cotton wick, a flat surface
This is in the box, and accessible here if you want to read the text ahead — so you're not flipping through pages during the pujan.
Not fear. Only devotion.
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