Asthi Visarjan in Bhagalpur (अस्थि विसर्जन)
the immersion of ashes, with the sankalp read before it
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Packages and prices in Bhagalpur
| Basic | ₹3,599 |
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| Standard | ₹3,599 |
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- 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.
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- Duration
- 2 hrs
- Pandits
- 1
- Venue
- temple
- Samagri included
- yes
About Asthi Visarjan
Asthi visarjan is the immersion of the ashes, kept after the cremation and usually within a few days, though the tradition allows longer where the family must travel. The remains are washed with milk, Ganga water and the panchagavya before the sankalp is read and they are given to the river.
It is done at a tirtha on flowing water, and the same visit generally carries a tarpan and the first of the shraddh rites. An hour and a half, and it is a rite the family arrives at rather than hosts — there is nothing to prepare at home and nothing to offer afterwards.
Keeping a rite in Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur is a river town and its rites use the river. Tarpan, asthi visarjan and the shraddh rites are kept on the ghats below Budhanath rather than at home, and the monsoon changes which steps are usable rather than whether the rite happens.
The town's own tradition is Anga's, and the calendar it keeps around Shravan and Mahashivratri is the Shaiva one. Silk-weaving households in Champanagar and Nathnagar hold their own occasions, which is worth mentioning when a date is being fixed.
Asthi Visarjan in Bhagalpur — local custom
Bhagalpur's ghats are used for immersion by families across Anga and eastern Bihar, and the river here is wide and slow enough that it is done from the steps rather than by boat.
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