Pitra Dosh Puja
The word Pitra Dosh comes from Pitru meaning forefather. It defines ancestors and denotes bad karma and ancestors’ wrongdoings.
If a person has Pitru dosh in his or her horoscope, this means the person’s ancestors or forefathers have committed crimes, sins, wrongdoings and mistakes. However, there are many different effects of this dosh.
Also, there are different types of Pitra Dosh. They are attributed to three major causes namely- the effects of the planets, ancestors’ deeds and a person’s karma.
This dosha can also occur if a person or family members fail to cater to the needs of yearly rituals. In astrology, it is one of the most destructive doshas and is found in a person’s birth chart. Be it a newborn, a married person, a businessman, a student, or anyone, this dosha can affect anyone. It creates an unfavourable environment and brings losses over losses. A person can also lose his reputation or may serve a long sentence in prison.
However, while some people believe that ancestors curse their descendants, others believe that individuals must perform certain duties to rectify their ancestors’ wrongdoings or bad deeds. If not one may have to repay the debt either by facing losses or as punishment. But luckily, many remedies and offerings can be made to get rid of it. The most beneficial out of all is considered the Pitra Dosh. It not only removes all the negativity but also puts ancestors in a peaceful position.
Hence, when performing the puja, every member of the family must be present to receive the blessings or else bad effects may continue.
पितृ दोष निवारण पूजा की जानकारी हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करे।
Myths about Pitra Dosh
Indian astrologers consider Pitra Dosh an important concept. Although many people believe it represents an ancestor’s curse, this interpretation is not entirely accurate. Instead, astrologers describe it as an ancestral debt that the person with this dosh must repay.
Astrologers consider it dangerous because they believe it can indicate unexpected deaths and failures. However, this is not the truth, because the puja releases one from their ancestor’s bad karma and sins, making the person free from all negativity and misconceptions.
What are the Symptoms of Pitra Dosha?
- One may face a continuous and serious impact on financial matters.
- One may often face health issues.
- One may face unexplained and unexpected obstacles and failures in education, career and personal desires.
- Another symptom is a delayed marriage or disputes and incompatibility in married life.
- There will be challenges in connections and relationships.
- One may suffer from bad emotional health.
- One may always feel disconnected from others.
General Hints of Pitra Dosh
You may dream of ancestors asking for food or clothes or may also dream about snakes.
Pitra Dosh Puja Importance
People have performed Pitra Dosh Nivaran Puja for ages because they consider it highly significant. It gives satisfaction to the ancestors by seeking their blessings in return for oneself, children and grandchildren. In other words, it removes the sin, thereby making a person’s life positive and healthy.
Pitra Dosh Benefits, Effects and Remedies
Mental Health and Spiritual Benefits
This puja brings peace both mentally and spiritually. It removes all obstacles, difficulties and problems from life. It opens doors for peace, happiness, positivity and blessings.
Wealth, Prosperity, Success and Financial Benefits
Performing Pitra dosh puja in Trimbakeshwar means receiving financial stability. It helps in overcoming bad situations. As a result, it brings good fortune, wealth and positive energy.
Relationship/Marriage Benefits
Pitra Puja protects you and your family from evil energies. Be it relationships or marriages, it brings positivity and happiness. Therefore you can live in a smooth and cordial family environment.
Pitra Dosh Effects
- A person with Pitra dosh faces financial problems and fails to achieve success in the work area. This mainly happens due to sickness or lack of mental peace. This as a result leads to continuous losses and unfavourable positions in work life.
- Pitra Dosh leads to delay in marriage and also can ruin a marriage life. It also creates endless arguments and disputes.
- Similar to adults, children may too face mental and physical health disabilities. This dosh also leads to miscarriages.
- A person with this dosha can face unnatural deaths like accidents, murder, suicides and continuous loss of lives within the family.
Best Effective Remedies for Pitra Dosh
- Give respect and earn blessings from elders.
- On Amavasya, offer food and clothes to Brahmins.
- Perform Rudra Abhishek Puja in your ancestor’s name.
- During Pitra Paksha, offer food to street dogs, and crows and offer balls of cooked rice to fishes on every Saturday.
- Worship Lord Vishnu in the form of Sri Ram.
- Offer water to the Sun and chant Gayatri Mantra.
- If any of your ancestors died unnaturally, perform Narayan Bali rites at sacred places like Badrinath, Gaya, Haridwar and Trimbakeshwar.
Pitra Dosh Puja Duration
The duration of Pitra Dosh Nivaran puja takes three days to complete. A Panditji performs every step of the Pitra Dosh Puja in detail, from worshipping God and arranging the samagri to carrying out the rituals and reciting the mala.
Pitra Dosh Puja Samagri
- Incense
- Paan leaves
- Desi ghee
- Hawan samagri
- Areca nuts
- Sweet stuffs
- Gangaajal
- Firepit
- Mango leaves
- Sugar
- Honey
- Yellow rice
- Turmeric
- Camphor
- Roli
- Janet
Pitra Dosh Nivaran Mantra
The Pitra Dosh Nirvana Mantra is, “Om Shreem Sarva Pitra Dosha Nivaran Klesham Han Han Sukh Shantim Dehi Phat Swaha” and “Om Pitrabhya Devatabhya Mahayogaibhyech Cha, Namah Swaha Swadhyaya Cha Nityamev Namah”. The experienced pandits can perform pitra dosh and Narayan Bali Puja in the best manner.
Procedure to Follow for Pitra Dosh Puja
- For the Pitra Dosh Nivaran Puja, it requires 3 days.
- According to Hindu Shastra, the puja can be done both by a female and a male person.
- One must pay an early visit to the location on the day of Muhurat for the puja to proceed.
- Once the puja starts, no one should leave the Trimbak and must wait until the puja ends. Also don’t eat food without onion or garlic.
- One must carry a white dhoti, Gamcha, and napkins and for women, it is sarees, blouses, etc.
- The male must only bring new clothes and for females black, green and plain white colour is recommended.
- From the day of puja until the next 41 days, there should be no non-veg and alcohol.
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Pitra Dosh Remedies for other Planets
Because Pitra Dosh has different effects on different planets, the remedies for each differ. To help you here are some.
- For the sun and the moon one must feel animals like oxens and cows. People believe that individuals commit bad deeds against their parents in connection with this dosh.
- Astrologers recommend that people donate to charity or provide services to the poor to appease Saturn. Astrologers believe Saturn influences people because of the wrongdoings they committed against servants or poor people in past lives.
- Wear ruby gemstone if this dish is present in the birth chart.
- Perform the puja relating to the planetary position of the malefic planets.
- Consult an expert or pandit for puja and tips.
- Respect elders to strengthen the position of the sun.
- Offer water to the Sun as it helps to strengthen the position of the sun in your horoscope.
- For Venus, one must do charity for the poor and needy wives, women, etc.
- Feed crows, fishes and sweepers.
- Chant Gayatri mantra.
- For Jupiter, one must do charity and services for the guru, husband and learned people.
Pitra Dosh Puja Cost
The cost of Pitra Dosh Puja is ₹3,100. The total expense may depend on the number of days required and the puja materials (samagri). Other factors include the location, the Pandit’s dakshina, and the arrangements provided. Before booking, confirm the included rituals and any additional charges with the Pandit.
Why Trimbakeshwar for Pitra Dosh Puja?
Wondering which is the best place for Pitra dosh puja? Trimbakeshwar is the best destination. This location has authentic Pandits who are highly skilled, trained and experienced in the field. They’re renowned as Purohits and they work inside the temple. You can perform Pitra Dosh Nivaran puja in the ancient temple of Lord Shiva. This temple works best when removing ancestors’ curses as it is one of the twelve live jyotirlingas in India. However, to perform the puja, make sure you hire the best pandit.
Why is Pitra Dosh Puja Performed?
- Devotees perform the puja to counteract the negative effects of their departed ancestors’ past deeds that may still affect their present lives.
- It is performed to bring peace and happening in one’s life.
- It is performed as a form of worship against the curse of departed ancestors.
- It is performed to neutralize ancestors’ curse from a person’s life.
- It is performed to pacify the soul of the departed ancestors so that they receive salvation. In exchange they receive blessings.
- It is performed to make a person’s karmic structure positive and powerful.
- It is performed to help one in achieving their desired success.
How to Identify Pitra Dosh from the Chart?
- For years, Pandits and astrologers have been identifying Pitra Dosha from a person’s Kundali and birth chart.
- Astrologers identified it in the 2nd, 5th, 9th, and 12th houses of the Kundali.
- In Kundali the 9th house describes Punya acquired from a past life of yours, parents or grandparents.
- The Pitra will be there if Budh and Shukra reside in the 9th and 12th houses.
- It can be in the Kundali, if the planets guru and buddha, guru and shukra, guru and rahu, guru and shani reside in the same position.
- It also will be severe for a person to have Pitra dosh in his/her horoscope if the Shani and Surya planets reside in the 5th house.
- It may also appear in the case of other planetary positions. Such as when Ketu resides in the 4th house; Mercury, Ketu, or both reside in the 1st or 8th house; the Moon resides in the 3rd or 6th house; the Sun, Moon, or Mars resides in the 10th or 11th house; the Sun, Venus, or both reside in the 12th house; the Moon or Mars resides in the 6th house; or the Sun, Moon, Rahu, or any two of these planets reside in the 10th house of the horoscope.
- The sun shows ill effects on the person, the moon and mercury show malefic effects, mars and Jupiter gives inauspicious results, and Venus, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu show malefic effects and inauspicious results as well as bad results.
Some Pro Tips
- Take your ancestor’s antique silver ornaments and flow them down a river.
- Every day in Shradh Paksha, offer water and black sesame to the ancestors.
- Mark an auspicious Muhurat and perform Pitra Dosha Nivaran Puja or Tripindi Shradh Puja with the help of good Purohits.
- On no-moon night, eat your dinner before sunset.
- On Monday, worship Lord Shiva with 21 flowers and worship your deity regularly.
- On the South wall of your house, keep pictures of your ancestors and respect your elders.
- Take the palm tree’s root and place it in a holy place during Uttrashadha Nakshatra, Uttara Falguni or Uttara Bhadrapad.
- On the no moon day feed the Brahmins and on every no moon night give food in the name of ancestors.
- Offer water in a copper vessel to the Sun God.
Pitra Dosh Puja Dates 2026
As per the ancient Hindu calendar, Pitrupaksha is performed right after the Ganesh festival and ends with Sarvapitri Amavasya. It is done to receive blessings from ancestors by offering them homage. Pandit Narayan Guruji is an experienced Panditji with 17+ years of experience performing Pitra Dosh Puja at Trimbakeshwar Temple.
| January 2026 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18 (Amavasya ) 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 31 . |
| February 2026 | 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, (Maha Shivratri) 17, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28. |
| March 2026 | 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19 (Amavasya) 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30. |
| April 2026 | 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17 (Amavasya) 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 30. |
| May 2026 | 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16 (Amavasya) 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25, 27, 30 and 31. |
| June 2026 | 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 (Nag Panchami) 13, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28 and 29. |
| July 2026 | 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27 and 29 . Special Day Shravan Monday (13, 20, 27 July) |
| August 2026 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 (Amavasya) 15, 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30 and 31. |
| September 2026 | 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 28, 30 ( Special Day Pitru Paksha Amavasya To bring peace and forgiveness to the family.) |
| October 2026 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12 (Amavasya) 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 31. |
| November 2026 | 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11 (Amavasya) 14, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29 and 30. |
| December 2026 | December 2026: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 (Margashirsha Amavasya), 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 28 and 31. |