Varanasi is a major center for various final rites:
- Pind Daan: General offering of rice balls to ancestors, performed widely on the Ghats or at Pishach Mochan.
- Asthi Visarjan: Immersion of cremated ashes in the holy Ganga River.
- Shraddha Karma: Annual ancestral rites, especially during Pitru Paksha.
- Nag Bali: If the unnatural death or Pitru Dosha involves snakes (Sarpa Dosha).
- Tarpan: Offering water oblations to ancestors