Ganesh Puja in Ara (गणेश पूजा)
the invocation of Ganesha, kept before any new beginning
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- From
- ₹2,499
Packages and prices in Ara
| Basic | ₹2,499 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹2,799 |
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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 Ganesh Puja
Ganesha is invoked before every other deity, which is what a Ganesh puja is for: it opens a shop, a house, a vehicle, an exam season or a longer rite. Kept on its own it is a short sequence — sankalp, sixteen upacharas, the Atharvashirsha or the Sankatnashan stotra, aarti — and it is over in an hour.
Durva grass in odd-numbered blades and modak are the offerings the tradition asks for by name. At Ganesh Chaturthi the same puja opens with pranapratishtha and becomes a stay of a day and a half or longer, ending in immersion; the rest of the year it stands alone.
Keeping a rite in Ara
Ara is Bhojpur, and its rites run in Bhojpuri — including the singing, which is the women's part and sets the pace a pandit works to. A rite here has more people in the room and less silence in it than the same rite kept in Mithila.
The town is walkable and most addresses are reached on foot from the main road. Aranya Devi is where the town's temple-mode rites are kept, and Navratri closes the lanes around it for a week.
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