Tarpan in Rajgir (तर्पण)
water offered with sesame, kept daily through Pitru Paksha
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Packages and prices in Rajgir
| Basic | ₹1,099 |
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| Standard | ₹1,099 |
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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
- Charged by the temple when the ritual is performed there, and only then.
- GST
- Tax charged as the law requires, shown separately.
- Duration
- 45 min
- Pandits
- 1
- Venue
- home, temple
- Samagri included
- yes
About Tarpan
Tarpan is water offered to the ancestors, poured through the part of the hand the tradition assigns to them, with black sesame and kusha grass. It is the simplest of the ancestral rites and the one kept most often — daily through Pitru Paksha, on an amavasya, and before a shraddh.
The offering is made facing south, standing in a river where there is one and from a vessel where there is not, with the sacred thread worn over the right shoulder. It takes about forty-five minutes with one pandit, and it is kept in a quiet register: no aarti, no prasad and nothing celebratory attached to it.
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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