Shraddh in Varanasi (श्राद्ध)
the annual rite kept on the tithi of a death
2 verified pandits serve Varanasi. Each one is named, with the checks he has completed, before any payment is made.
- From
- ₹4,099
- Pandits available
- 2
Available pandits in Varanasi
Packages and prices in Varanasi
| Basic | ₹4,099 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹4,699 |
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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
- 3 hrs
- Pandits
- 1
- Venue
- home
- Samagri included
- yes
About Shraddh
Shraddh is the annual rite for a parent or forebear, kept on the tithi of the death rather than on its calendar date — so it moves through the year. Pinda of rice and barley are offered, water with black sesame is given as tarpan, and a meal is offered to a brahmin, a cow or a crow according to the family's custom.
It is kept by the son or the person who performed the last rites, at home or on a riverbank, and it is preceded by a fast until the offering is made. During Pitru Paksha the same rite is kept for the whole line rather than one person. Two hours, in a quiet register throughout — there is no aarti and no celebration in it.
Keeping a rite in Varanasi
Varanasi does more ritual per day than any city on this list, and the effect is that everything is available and nothing is quiet. A rite kept on a ghat shares the ghat; one kept at a temple is fitted between the temple's own aartis, which are fixed and do not move for a booking.
The city's own pandits are trained in karmakanda to a depth that is unusual, so a question about why a step is done a particular way tends to get an answer from a named authority. The lanes are the practical constraint: the last stretch to most addresses is walked, and samagri is carried in.
Shraddh in Varanasi — local custom
Varanasi keeps shraddh on the ghats through the year, and the Pishach Mochan tank in the city is where the rites for a death held to be untimely or unquiet are traditionally performed. Both are the city's own specialisms and neither is arranged at short notice in Pitru Paksha.
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