Durga Saptashati Path in Deoghar (दुर्गा सप्तशती पाठ)
the seven-hundred-verse reading kept through Navratri
One verified pandit serves Deoghar. He is named, with the checks he has completed, before any payment is made.
- From
- ₹5,899
- Pandits available
- 1
Available pandits in Deoghar
Packages and prices in Deoghar
| Basic | ₹5,899 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹6,499 |
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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
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- 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
- 5 hrs
- Pandits
- 2
- Venue
- home, temple
- Samagri included
- yes
About Durga Saptashati Path
The Durga Saptashati is seven hundred verses on the goddess's defeat of Mahishasura, Madhu and Kaitabha, and Shumbha and Nishumbha, read in thirteen chapters. A full path takes three to four hours and is read in one sitting; families that cannot sit that long keep the navaha over nine days or have named chapters read instead.
It is kept through both Navratris, on Ashtami and Navami, and at a Shakta household's own occasions. The reading is preceded by a kalash sthapana and a sankalp, and the text has its own rules — the kavacha, argala and kilaka before it and the Devi Suktam after — which a pandit who works in this tradition will keep to.
Keeping a rite in Deoghar
Deoghar's calendar is dominated by Shravan. Through that month the town belongs to the kanwar pilgrimage, the temple queues run day and night, and local pandits are committed to it; domestic bookings move to the months either side as a matter of routine.
Outside the season it is a small town where most rites are kept at home and the temple visit is a separate errand. Mundan and the first-hair rites are commonly kept at Baidyanath, which is a booking that has to be planned around the queue rather than around the muhurat alone.
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