Most chosen for masikam
We cook at your home
Our cook arrives in madi about three hours before the muhurtham, prepares the naivedyam first and serves the bhoktas on the leaf.
How home cooking works
Masika catering specialists
Masikam is the work we are known for
In the first year after losing someone, a masikam comes every month. Each one needs the right menu, cooked in madi and ready before the purohit begins.
For 18+ years, Hyderabad families have trusted Vigneshwara Caterers with exactly this. We cook the full shraddha menu for the bhoktas and the family, either in your home or in our Saroor Nagar kitchen, and we keep doing it month after month until the aabdikam.
Because the same cooks come each time, the food tastes the same every month — something elders notice, and something that brings a little steadiness to a difficult year.
The masikams of the first year
Most families perform sixteen, in roughly this order. The four marked in gold are the Oona and Tripaksha masikams that fall between the monthly ones.
- 1 Oona masikam Around day 27–28
- 2 1st masikam End of month 1
- 3 Tripaksham Around day 45
- 4 2nd masikam Month 2
- 5 3rd masikam Month 3
- 6 4th masikam Month 4
- 7 5th masikam Month 5
- 8 Oona shanmasikam Just before month 6
- 9 6th masikam Month 6
- 10 7th masikam Month 7
- 11 8th masikam Month 8
- 12 9th masikam Month 9
- 13 10th masikam Month 10
- 14 11th masikam Month 11
- 15 Oona abdikam Just before month 12
- 16 12th masikam Month 12
Timings are approximate and practice differs between sampradayams. Your purohit fixes the exact tithi for each masikam — we cook to those dates.
Book once, and we plan the year
Most families book all their masikams in a single call. Here is how it works.
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Share the dates
Send us the masikam dates and tithis your purohit has given you, by call or WhatsApp.
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We set the calendar
Every masikam is noted with the time, the number of bhoktas and whether we cook at home or deliver.
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We remind you
A few days before each masikam we call to confirm the timing and any change in numbers.
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Same cooks, every month
The same team arrives or delivers on the day, so the food and the service never change.
At your home, or delivered
When space is limited
We cook and deliver
The full masikam menu is cooked in our kitchen with the same rules, packed hot and delivered before the ritual begins.
Ask about delivery to your areaA typical masikam menu
A traditional shraddha leaf for the bhoktas and the family. The menu is always set with you before the day, following your family's custom.
Questions about masikam catering
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Masikam is the monthly shraddha performed during the first year after a person passes away, on the tithi of their passing. Bhoktas are fed and the ritual meal is offered to the departed each month until the aabdikam.
Most Telugu Brahmin families perform sixteen — the twelve monthly masikams plus Oona masikam, Tripaksham, Oona shanmasikam and Oona abdikam. Practice varies by sampradayam, so always follow the list your purohit gives you.
Yes, and we recommend it. Send us the dates from your purohit and we plan the whole year, confirm with you a few days before each masikam and send the same cooks every time.
Yes. Masikam food is cooked without onion, garlic, tomato and other items not used in shraddha, and only with the vegetables tradition allows. Families also have their own customs, and we always follow your list.
Anything from a single bhokta to fifty guests. Most masikams are for the bhoktas and close family — often between three and fifteen people.
Tithis sometimes shift, or the purohit may change a date. Just call or WhatsApp us as early as possible and we will move your booking.
Book masikam catering
Send the first masikam date, or all of them. We will call back to plan the menu and confirm.