Narayan Bali Puja is a ritual described in Garuda Purana which is performed in all cases of unnatural death of a family member. Death can be by one of the following reasons :

• Starvation
• Animals
• Accident
• Arson
• Curse
• Epidemics such as Corona virus or other diseases causing untimely death
• Suicide,
• Fall from a mountain, tree or any height,
• Drowning,
• Murder
• Snake bite,
• Lightning

It is also performed for the dead persons who were great sinners. The families performing these rituals usually do in the hope of them getting rid of family misfortune, infertility or for the desire to have a male child.