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Ritual Guides

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Ritual Guides › All-Year PujansSatyanarayan Vrata: Complete Katha and Puja GuideSatyanarayan Vrata is a kamya vrata — performed whenever a sincere sankalp arises, with no fixed tithi, season or restriction on who may keep it. The Skanda Purana's five-chapter katha makes one point twice: the prasad is not optional.DHARMA · 4/58 min Ritual Guides › Beginner's GuidesGanesh Chaturthi for Beginners: Your First Home GanpatiEverything you need to bring Ganpati home for the first time — what to buy, what to do on day one, the daily routine, and how to say goodbye at visarjan. No Sanskrit to look up, no citations, no wrong way to do it.5 min Ritual Guides › Sanskar & Life EventsPind DaanPind Daan as the offering that nourishes the ancestors, in its several forms.DHARMA · 4/5 Ritual Guides › Sanskar & Life EventsPitru PakshaComplete Shraddh GuideDHARMA · 4/5 Ritual Guides › Sanskar & Life EventsIndira EkadashiThe Ekadashi for the DepartedDHARMA · 4/5 Ritual Guides › Festive PujansSharad NavratriThe Complete 9-Day Guide. From Ghatasthapana to Maha Navami nine forms, nine nights, one Mother.DHARMA · 4/5 Ritual Guides › Festive PujansKanya PujanThe worship of kumaris during NavaratriDHARMA · 4/5 Ritual Guides › Festive PujansDussehra/VijayadashamiTuesday, 20 October 2026 · Ashwin Shukla Dashami DHARMA · 4/5 Ritual Guides › Sanskar & Life EventsPapankusha EkadashiThe elephant goad of Vishnu - an Ekadashi about being pulled back from the edgeDHARMA · 4/5 Ritual Guides › Festive PujansYama Pujan - Deep DaanFriday, 6 November 2026 · Kartik Krishna Trayodashi · Deep also kept at Holika Dahan DHARMA · 4/5

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Panchang › Tithi & PakshaOctober 2026 PanchangFestivals, Vrats, Muhurats - the densest month of the year Panchang › Festival CalendarSharad Navratri 2026 Panchang11-19 October 2026 · Ashwin Shukla Paksha

Dharmic Concepts

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Dharmic Concepts › Meanings & PracticesWhy is durva offered to Ganesh?Twenty-one blades of durva, placed on Ganesha's head, are named across the Ganesha and Mudgala Puranas as his dearest offering — cooling a fire in the Analasura narrative that no other offering could touch. The grass is common and unremarkable, which is exactly the point.DHARMA · 3/55 min Dharmic Concepts › MaterialsWhy is cow dung auspicious?A humble substance, treated as sacred across Hindu domestic life, not despite being overlooked, but because it was the one thing asked for by those who had already been given everything else.DHARMA · 3/56 min Dharmic Concepts › Meanings & PracticesMeaning of NavratriNavratri worship of the Devi across nine nights of Ashwin Shukla PakshaDHARMA · 4/5 Dharmic Concepts › MaterialsWhy is Panchamrit abhishek sacred?Five substances that were each already an offering, assembled into a bathDHARMA · 4/5

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