Key Takeaways
- The four rites, and which applies
- What pitru dosh is, briefly
- The parts that cost nothing
In This Article
There is no single ceremony called pitru dosh nivaran puja. The phrase covers whichever ancestral rite a family has missed, and the honest answer to “what does it cost” depends entirely on which that is — from ₹5,100 for tarpan to ₹31,000 for Narayan Bali. What decides it is not the severity of a chart reading. It is what was and was not performed.
The four rites, and which applies
| Rite | From | When this is the one you need |
|---|---|---|
| Tarpan | ₹5,100 | The ongoing observance. Monthly, at amavasya, through Pitru Paksha. Not a remedy so much as the thing that should have been happening |
| Shradh and pind daan | ₹7,100 | The baseline, and for most families the whole answer. The rites that were owed and missed, performed properly once and then kept annually |
| Tripindi shradh | ₹21,000 | Where annual shradh has lapsed for three years or more. Addresses three generations at once |
| Narayan Bali | ₹31,000 | Only where a death in the line was unnatural — accident, suicide, snakebite, drowning — or the last rites were never performed |
Regular prices outside the seasonal windows are ₹41,000 for Narayan Bali in person and ₹46,000 online; the online ceremony is ₹35,000 in season. Tripindi is ₹22,000 online. Everything covers samagri, dakshina, ghat booking and the written record, and nothing is added on the day.
What pitru dosh is, briefly
The Jyotish tradition reads it in a chart when the ninth house or the Sun is afflicted by Rahu, Ketu or Saturn, and the classical understanding is that ancestral rites left undone pass down as an obstruction until they are performed. It is framed as an unpaid obligation rather than a curse, and the remedy is to pay it — which is why the table above is a list of ordinary rites and not of special transactions.
The fuller treatment, including the chart combinations and what the texts actually describe, is in pitra dosh: what a chart reading means.
The parts that cost nothing
They are part of the prescription and a pandit who mentions only the paid options is not giving you all of it: feeding a crow, a cow and a dog; anna daan; keeping the annual tithi even when you cannot travel; and the Pitru Gayatri and Mahamrityunjay mantras. For many families who arrive worried about this, the honest answer is that they should keep the annual shradh they have been missing, and nothing else.
🙏 Shradh and Pind Daan at the Sangam
- A pandit asks what your family has missed before quoting anything
- Tarpan ₹5,100 · pind daan ₹7,100 · tripindi ₹21,000 · Narayan Bali ₹31,000
- All samagri, ghat booking and dakshina included — nothing added on the day
- Live video link and a written record for families abroad
Where a death in the family was sudden or violent, start at akal mrityu rather than here — the tradition prescribes a different rite before the ordinary ones resume.
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