Satyanarayan Katha in Rajgir (सत्यनारायण कथा)
the katha of Bhagwan Satyanarayan, traditionally read to give thanks
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Packages and prices in Rajgir
| Basic | ₹3,099 |
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| Standard | ₹3,599 |
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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
- 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 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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