Tarpan in Varanasi (तर्पण)
water offered with sesame, kept daily through Pitru Paksha
2 verified pandits serve Varanasi. Each one is named, with the checks he has completed, before any payment is made.
- From
- ₹1,099
- Pandits available
- 2
Available pandits in Varanasi
Packages and prices in Varanasi
| Basic | ₹1,099 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹1,099 |
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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
- 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 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.
Tarpan in Varanasi — local custom
Tarpan at Varanasi is kept standing in the Ganga at the ghats, facing south, and the city's priests do it every morning of the year for somebody. Pitru Paksha and the amavasyas fill the steps; the rest of the year a family can keep it at the hour it chooses.
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