GharParampara

When is your father’s next shraddha?

For families who keep the traditions but were never taught the details.

What families perform at home

Today the app walks through one rite in full. See it below.

Perform your family’s rituals at home, properly, without needing to know how.

Your father’s shraddha can fall on a different day in New Jersey than in Lucknow. We work out which.

Three questions

We work out the nakshatra, the tithi, the Hindu date, and every observance your family keeps.

A screenshot of the birth form with fictional details: 21 August 1992, morning, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
A picture of the person form, with fictional details. You cannot type here.
NakshatraWorked out for you
Tithi dayWorked out for you

Lakshmi Puja, step by step

Three steps from the rite as it appears in the app.

  1. 03

    State why you are here Sankalpa

    Hold water, rice and a flower in your right hand. Read the words aloud, then release them into a dish.

    Water, rice, flower · pouch 1, 2, 7

  2. 04

    Light the lamp Dipa prajvalana

    Light the diya and place it to the right of the deity.

    ॐ दीपज्योतिः परब्रह्म दीपज्योतिर्जनार्दनः। दीपो हरतु मे पापं दीपज्योतिर्नमोऽस्तु ते॥

    om DEE-puh-jyoh-tih puh-ruh-BRUH-muh · DEE-puh-jyoh-tir juh-naar-duh-nah · DEE-poh HUH-ruh-tu may PAA-pum · DEE-puh-jyoh-tir nuh-MOHS-tu tay

    Lamp, matches · pouch 9

  3. 05

    Begin with Ganesha Ganesha puja

    Offer rice, a flower and a sweet to Ganesha.

    ॐ गं गणपतये नमः॥

    om gum guh-nuh-PUH-tuh-yay NUH-muh-ha

    Rice, flower, sweet · pouch 2, 7, 10

Use what you have

See the whole rite in a fictional family

What you don’t need to know

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