Lakshmi Puja in Varanasi (लक्ष्मी पूजा)
the Diwali-evening puja of Lakshmi and Ganesha
2 verified pandits serve Varanasi. Each one is named, with the checks he has completed, before any payment is made.
- From
- ₹2,899
- Pandits available
- 2
Available pandits in Varanasi
Packages and prices in Varanasi
| 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 Varanasi
Varanasi does more ritual per day than any city on this list, and the effect is that everything is available and nothing is quiet. A rite kept on a ghat shares the ghat; one kept at a temple is fitted between the temple's own aartis, which are fixed and do not move for a booking.
The city's own pandits are trained in karmakanda to a depth that is unusual, so a question about why a step is done a particular way tends to get an answer from a named authority. The lanes are the practical constraint: the last stretch to most addresses is walked, and samagri is carried in.
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