Pind Daan in Bhagalpur (पिंड दान)
the offering made at Gaya for three generations of ancestors
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Packages and prices in Bhagalpur
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| Standard | ₹5,099 |
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- Paid to the named pandit who performs the ritual.
- Samagri
- The items the ritual needs, itemised when the package includes them.
- Travel
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- Duration
- 4 hrs
- Pandits
- 1
- Venue
- temple
- Samagri included
- yes
About Pind Daan
Pind daan is the offering of pinda — balls of rice, barley flour and sesame — on behalf of the ancestors, and the tradition holds that it is owed to three generations by name and to the whole line beyond them. It is offered with a sankalp that names the family, the gotra, the place and the person it is for.
It is kept at a tirtha rather than at home, on a riverbank or at a named site, and most often in Pitru Paksha. The rite is unhurried and is walked between stations rather than sat through in one place. Its register is solemn from beginning to end.
Keeping a rite in Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur is a river town and its rites use the river. Tarpan, asthi visarjan and the shraddh rites are kept on the ghats below Budhanath rather than at home, and the monsoon changes which steps are usable rather than whether the rite happens.
The town's own tradition is Anga's, and the calendar it keeps around Shravan and Mahashivratri is the Shaiva one. Silk-weaving households in Champanagar and Nathnagar hold their own occasions, which is worth mentioning when a date is being fixed.
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