Lakshmi Puja in Patna (लक्ष्मी पूजा)
the Diwali-evening puja of Lakshmi and Ganesha
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Packages and prices in Patna
| Basic | ₹2,899 |
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| Standard | ₹3,299 |
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- Duration
- 2 hrs
- Pandits
- 1
- Venue
- home
- Samagri included
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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 Patna
Patna keeps rites for a population drawn from every district of Bihar, so a household's custom here is usually its village's rather than the city's. Two families on the same street will differ on which day of a wedding carries which rite, and the pandit is expected to follow the family rather than the town.
Practically, the city is spread out and the traffic decides the day: a morning muhurat in Kankarbagh and an afternoon one in Danapur are two different bookings. Temple-mode rites are usually kept at Mahavir Mandir or at one of the two Patan Devi shrines, and both fill early.
Lakshmi Puja in Patna — local custom
Patna's trading households keep the Chopda Pujan inside the Diwali Lakshmi Puja — the new year's account books opened and marked in the same rite — and the market areas around Maruf Ganj and Khajekalan book the evening muhurat months ahead.
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