Namkaran in Prayagraj (नामकरण)
the naming ceremony, usually on the eleventh or twelfth day
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- ₹2,899
Packages and prices in Prayagraj
| Basic | ₹2,899 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹3,199 |
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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 Namkaran
Namkaran is the naming, kept on the eleventh or twelfth day after a birth, or on the twenty-first where the family's custom says so. The nakshatra at the time of birth supplies a syllable, and the name chosen usually begins with it — which is why the birth time and place are asked for when the booking is made.
The rite is a Ganesh puja, a sankalp, the name said into the child's right ear by the father, and then aloud to the gathering. It is short, an hour or so, and is kept at home. Nothing about it needs a temple, and the tradition is specific that the name is announced rather than merely registered.
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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