Satyanarayan Katha in Bhagalpur (सत्यनारायण कथा)
the katha of Bhagwan Satyanarayan, traditionally read to give thanks
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Packages and prices in Bhagalpur
| Basic | ₹3,099 |
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| Standard | ₹3,599 |
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- Pandit fee
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- Samagri
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- Travel
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- Duration
- 3 hrs
- Pandits
- 1
- Venue
- home, temple
- Samagri included
- yes
About Satyanarayan Katha
The Satyanarayan katha is the most commonly kept household puja in north India, and it is a reading rather than a rite of passage. The story is told in five chapters from the Skanda Purana, each one closing with an aarti, and the family sits through all five rather than arriving for a moment of it.
It is kept on a purnima by preference, and at a house-warming, a wedding, a new job or the end of a long journey. The prasad is sinni — wheat flour, sugar and banana — and the tradition asks that it be shared beyond the household. Three hours, at home or at a temple.
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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