Pind Daan in Rajgir (पिंड दान)
the offering made at Gaya for three generations of ancestors
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Packages and prices in Rajgir
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| Standard | ₹5,099 |
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- 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
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- Temple charge
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- GST
- Tax charged as the law requires, shown separately.
- 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 Rajgir
Rajgir is a pilgrimage town for three traditions at once and a small residential one underneath. Rites for visitors are kept at the kunds and at the hill shrines; rites for the town's own households are kept at home, in Magahi, on the Magadh calendar.
The hot springs are the town's ritual centre, and bathing there is a step in a rite rather than an amenity. The Malamas fair in the intercalary month is the one period when the site is too full to plan anything around.
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