These balls are hand made from 3 special varieties of flour (chokar, or bran flour, chuni or broken gram, and atta or wholemeal flour) are really something special. This tradition is believed to have originated from Punjab, although people from other states may not agree with this opinion. Somehow or other, in many families this tradition has been passed from generation to generation. Feeding laddu balls to cows is believed to harmonise such planets as Jupiter (Guru), Sun (Surya) & Marc (Mangal).