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যেখানেই থাকুন।

Water offered with sesame and kush grass to satisfy the departed, performed daily through the fortnight.

For anyone observing Pitru Paksha for their ancestors, whether or not a specific tithi is known.

Rice-and-barley pindas offered at the ghat to give the departed a body for their onward journey.

For a son or close relative performing the rite that releases an ancestor from a lingering state.

Pind daan performed at asthi sanchay, when the ancestral remains are gathered after cremation.

For a family completing the early rites in the days soon after a death.

The ten pindas of the dashgatra rite, offered over the days of mourning with daily tarpan.

For the ten-day rite kept in the period soon after a death.

A complete pind daan for all the ancestors of your lineage together, with tarpan and aarti.

For families honouring the whole lineage rather than one departed.

The ashes immersed in the Ganga at the ghat, with tarpan and a sankalp in the departed's name.

For a family bringing a departed's ashes to the Ganga for immersion.

A shanti havan to calm pitru dosha and bring peace to the ancestors, with tarpan.

For families seeking relief from pitru dosha and the ancestors' blessing.

A rite to bring peace to souls departed by untimely or unnatural death, and to relieve pitru dosha.

For families observing the rite for a death that was untimely or unnatural.

The complete rite: sankalp, tarpan, pind daan and brahmin bhoj, performed end to end by the pandit.

For an annual shraddh or a first observance where the whole karma is to be done in one sitting.