Durga Saptashati Path in Prayagraj (दुर्गा सप्तशती पाठ)
the seven-hundred-verse reading kept through Navratri
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- ₹5,899
Packages and prices in Prayagraj
| Basic | ₹5,899 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹6,499 |
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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
- 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 Prayagraj
Prayagraj's rites are the Sangam's. Tarpan, asthi visarjan, shraddh and the mundan kept at the confluence are what the city's pandits do most, and the sands where they are done exist for part of the year and are under water for the rest.
Magh is the busy month — the annual mela, and the Kumbh and Ardh Kumbh at their own intervals — when the whole city is arranged around the mela ground. Domestic rites in the civil lines and the older town go on regardless, and are unaffected by any of it.
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