Asthi Visarjan in Varanasi (अस्थि विसर्जन)
the immersion of ashes, with the sankalp read before it
2 verified pandits serve Varanasi. Each one is named, with the checks he has completed, before any payment is made.
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- ₹3,599
- Pandits available
- 2
Available pandits in Varanasi
Packages and prices in Varanasi
| Basic | ₹3,599 |
|---|---|
| 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.
- 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
- 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 Varanasi
Varanasi does more ritual per day than any city on this list, and the effect is that everything is available and nothing is quiet. A rite kept on a ghat shares the ghat; one kept at a temple is fitted between the temple's own aartis, which are fixed and do not move for a booking.
The city's own pandits are trained in karmakanda to a depth that is unusual, so a question about why a step is done a particular way tends to get an answer from a named authority. The lanes are the practical constraint: the last stretch to most addresses is walked, and samagri is carried in.
Asthi Visarjan in Varanasi — local custom
Varanasi is where most of north India brings ashes, and the immersion is done from a boat off Manikarnika or Harishchandra rather than from the steps. The visit almost always carries a tarpan and the first shraddh rites with it.
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