Lakshmi Puja in Ara (लक्ष्मी पूजा)
the Diwali-evening puja of Lakshmi and Ganesha
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- ₹2,899
Packages and prices in Ara
| Basic | ₹2,899 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹3,299 |
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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
- 2 hrs
- Pandits
- 1
- Venue
- home
- Samagri included
- yes
About Lakshmi Puja
Lakshmi Puja is kept on the Diwali amavasya, in the evening rather than the morning, and Ganesha is worshipped beside Lakshmi rather than after her. The house is cleaned and lit before the puja, not after: the tradition is that she is received, and a house is made ready for a guest before they arrive.
Trading families open the new year's account books in the same rite — the Chopda Pujan — which is why the puja marks a financial year as well as a lunar one. Coins, a kalash, lotus, kheel and batasha are the usual offerings. An hour and a half, at home, at a muhurat that falls in the evening.
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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