Annaprashan in Nalanda (अन्नप्राशन)
the child’s first solid food, offered with a short puja
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- ₹2,399
Packages and prices in Nalanda
| Basic | ₹2,399 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹2,699 |
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What the price is made of
- Pandit fee
- Paid to the named pandit who performs the ritual.
- Samagri
- The items the ritual needs, itemised when the package includes them.
- Travel
- The pandit's travel to the address you give, by distance band.
- Platform fee
- What BookMyPandiit charges to run the platform. It is a line of its own: it is never taken out of the pandit's fee and never presented as dakshina.
- Temple charge
- Charged by the temple when the ritual is performed there, and only then.
- GST
- Tax charged as the law requires, shown separately.
- Duration
- 90 min
- Pandits
- 1
- Venue
- home
- Samagri included
- yes
About Annaprashan
Annaprashan is a child's first solid food, kept in the sixth month for a boy and the fifth or seventh for a girl in most north Indian custom, on a muhurat. The food is usually kheer, and it is given by the maternal uncle or the grandfather rather than by the mother.
The rite is short — a Ganesh puja, a sankalp, the feeding, and a blessing — and the part families remember is what follows it, when the child is set before a tray of objects and allowed to reach for one. An hour, at home, and the gathering is usually larger than the ceremony.
Keeping a rite in Nalanda
Nalanda district is small towns and villages around Bihar Sharif, and the custom kept is Magadh's — explained in Magahi more often than in Hindi, and following the practice of a particular tract rather than of the district. Households describe their rites as their village's, and they are right to.
There is space here that a city does not have, so havans and open-air rites are straightforward. Samagri for anything beyond the common list is bought in Bihar Sharif or brought from Patna, which is an hour and a half away.
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