Pitru Dosha is read in the horoscope when the Sun, Rahu, Ketu or Saturn press upon the ninth house or the karaka of the fathers. The tradition understands it as an unfinished obligation — rites left unperformed, a lineage whose offerings thinned across generations. It is not a punishment. It is a debt, and debts in Vedic thought are settled with fire, water and remembrance.
The Pitra Dosha Nivaran Homa is that settlement. Tarpana is offered, the Pitru Devatas are invoked by name and gotra, and the sacred fire carries cooked rice, sesame and ghee to the ancestral realm. Alongside it, the planets holding the affliction receive their own oblations, so the chart is addressed as a whole. This is why the pitru dosha nivarana homam is placed in the Maha tier — it is long, it is exacting, and it is performed for a line of people, not one.
ॐ पितृभ्यः स्वधायिभ्यः स्वधा नमः। ॐ पितृगणाय विद्महे जगद्धारिणे धीमहि। तन्नो पितरः प्रचोदयात्॥ Reverence and the sacred offering to the ancestors who receive svadha; we contemplate the host of forefathers who uphold the world, and may those ancestors guide and awaken us.
Why Devotees Book This
Devotees turn to the Pitra Dosha Nivaran Homa when the horoscope shows ancestral affliction and life seems to repeat a pattern nobody chose.
Addresses Pitru Dosha in the chart
The rite is prescribed where Rahu, Ketu, Saturn or the Sun afflict the ninth house or the significator of the fathers.
Offers tarpana to the lineage
Water, sesame and cooked offerings are made in your gotra and your ancestors' names, as the shastras direct.
Steadies the malefic grahas
Oblations are made to the specific planets carrying the dosha, so the chart is worked on as one whole and not in pieces.
Sought before family milestones
Families book it ahead of marriage, conception, a house-warming or a new venture, when the blessing of the elders is asked for first.
For obstacles that repeat down a line
Where the same difficulty seems to visit generation after generation, tradition prescribes ancestral propitiation before anything else.
Completes rites that were missed
Where shraddha or tarpana went unperformed over the years, this homa is offered as the remembrance the family owed.
Brahmashree ShivaayaGuru, Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions
Who performs your homa
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Pitra Dosha Nivaran Homa is trained in a traditional Padashala and personally recruited by Brahmashree Shivaaya — Guru and Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava. Your ritual is conducted at our own Yagna Ashram — never a rented venue — with temple rites performed across our seven temples in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Not every fire ritual is performed at the same scale. A Maha Homa is our largest form — more priests, a longer fire, and the complete chanting sequence the rite prescribes rather than an abridged one. This is what that means in practice.
Priests5 or 10Chanting in unison, never in rotation
The fire burnsApprox. 2 hoursFrom the sankalpa to the final aarti
ChantedIn fullThe complete sequence the rite calls for, not an excerpt
TelecastEvery minuteNothing is performed off camera
A Maha Homa is performed for one devotee and their named family, the same as any homa we conduct. What the scale changes is the weight of the offering — ten trained voices holding one hymn for two hours is a different undertaking from one voice for an hour, and it is reserved for the intentions that warrant it.
Book your Pitra Dosha Nivaran Homa
Choose how many priests will chant
Both packages are the same rite. The complete Pitra Dosha Nivaranm, all thirty-one verses, over approximately two hours, with the same offerings, the same free energised Surya Yantra sealed in its silver amulet, and the same live telecast. What changes is how many trained voices carry the hymn at once.
Your packagePitra Dosha Nivaran Maha Homa5 Priests · approx. 2 hours · Free Surya Yantra
₹36,850
All prices are all-inclusive — no shipping charges, no additions at checkout. See everything included →
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You book — and send birth details at checkout.
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Within 24–48 working hours — your muhurta is confirmed by email.
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The day before — your telecast link arrives by email.
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After the homa — tracking email with your personal time to wear the yantra.
Sacred Timing
Ancestral rites follow the dark half of the lunar month and the hours sacred to the forefathers. Our priests fix the muhurat from your birth details.
Amavasya
The new moon is the classical day of the Pitru Devatas. Mahalaya Amavasya and Thai Amavasya are held especially potent.
Pitru Paksha
The fortnight of the ancestors in Bhadrapada is the most prescribed window of the year for the pitru dosha nivarana homam.
Aparahna kala
The afternoon watch is the hour when the ancestors are said to receive offerings. Ancestral rites are timed to it.
Bharani and Magha nakshatras
Both stars are linked to Yama and the forefathers, and are chosen when Amavasya is not near.
Every package, and the 48-day option
What you receive
The sealing of the yantra
When your homa concludes, the yantra that stood in the fire is rolled and locked inside its silver amulet according to Agama vidhi — the practice by which the energies raised in a ritual are held within a consecrated object rather than dispersing. It is why a homa performed at our ashram can still reach a devotee ten thousand miles away: what the fire raised travels to you, sealed.
Personal sankalpa
Your name, gotra & nakshatra — for you and up to five family members.
Live telecast
Watch your own homa in real time from the ashram. Streamed openly on our YouTube channel by default — or request a private, unlisted telecast at checkout.
Free energised Pitru Devatas Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet
Consecrated over three days — Jala (holy-water consecration with mantras), Prana (life force through pranayama & chants) and Jeeva Pratishta (awakened with 108 recitations & offerings) — then present through your homa, receiving the energies raised in the fire. Immediately afterwards it is rolled and sealed inside a silver amulet by Agamic rite, locking those energies within, and shipped to you with your prasadam.
Prasadam, shipped free
Sacred vibhuti, sandalwood powder & kumkum from your fire — delivered to any country.
48-Day Anushthan (optional)
Daily temple worship for 48 days — the 27 Nakshatras + 12 Rashis + 9 Planets — then sealed in a silver amulet of approximately 2–4 inches.
A note on sacred tradition
As per strict Agama vidhi, no videography is permitted inside the temple sanctum — this preserves the pure sacred energies and undisturbed divine focus of the ritual. The main homa is respectfully telecast live from outside the sanctum; the daily rituals of the 48-day Anushthan are performed with full devotion but are not telecast.
Homas are telecast openly on our YouTube channel so that devotees everywhere may witness the rituals — and because we believe you should be able to see our work before you trust us with yours. Your sankalpa names you and your family, so if you would rather your ceremony were not public, choose the private telecast option at checkout and it is streamed as an unlisted link visible only to you.
We state this plainly — transparency about what tradition forbids filming, and about what is public, is part of performing these rituals honestly.
After it arrives
How to wear your energised Pitru Devatas Yantra
The energised yantra is carefully rolled and sealed inside a sacred silver amulet before shipping. Wearing it is itself a small ritual — and even its timing is set for you personally.
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Your auspicious time to wear it
Our astrologer marks the auspicious date and time to wear the yantra according to your birth details — sent to you in the email carrying your shipment's tracking number.
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Purify the amulet
Dip the silver amulet in raw milk or Ganga jal for an hour before wearing, then clean with normal water.
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Face East or North
Perform the wearing process facing east or north for maximum benefit.
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Offer dheep & dhoop
Show lamp and incense to the amulet before wearing it.
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Wear it
Around your neck or waist, on a thread or chain.
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Keep the energy intact
Repeated offering of dheep and dhoop keeps the energisation alive.
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If you prefer not to wear it
Place the amulet at your puja altar, or keep it in your wallet.
Inside the fire ritual
How your Pitra Dosha Nivaran Homa is performed
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Sankalpa
The priest states your name, gotra and nakshatra — and those of up to five family members — with the intention this homa is performed for.
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Ganapati Puja
The customary invocation to Ganapati, clearing obstacles before the goddess is approached.
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Agni Pratishtha
The fire is consecrated in the homa kunda and Agni invoked as the carrier of every offering that follows.
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Pitru Devatas Avahana
The Pitru Devatas Sukta and Pitru Devatas Gayatri are chanted, inviting the goddess's presence into the fire — by one, three or five priests as your package sets.
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Ahuti
Ghee, white flowers, akshata and honey are offered in sequence with mantra — the offerings traditional to her worship.
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Purnahuti
The final complete offering seals the sankalpa stated at the opening.
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Aarti & Dispatch
Aarti is performed live on your telecast. Vibhuti, sandalwood powder, kumkum and your energised yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.
Who is invoked
Pitru Devatas — the goddess of knowledge itself
Pitru Devatas is one of the Tridevi and the mother of the Vedas — the presiding deity of knowledge, learning, memory, speech, music and every art. She is depicted in white upon a white lotus, holding the veena, a book, a rosary and a water pot, with the swan of discernment beside her.
In this homa, her grace — Pitru Devatas Kataksham — is invoked through fire with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.
Sarathi, our free AI ritual guide, recommends the traditional ritual for your situation instantly. For a full reading of your chart, book a live session with our astrologers — the fee is fully credited when you book any ritual.
The tradition does not speak of erasing it so much as settling it. Shraddha, tarpana, charity and a homa offered in the ancestors' names are the prescribed remedies, and they are meant to be performed with sincerity rather than once and forgotten. The Pitra Dosha Nivaran Homa is the fire-rite among these. What it offers is propitiation, not a guarantee.
Pitra Dosha is an affliction read in the horoscope indicating an unpaid obligation to the ancestral line. Astrologers identify it from the condition of the ninth house, its lord, and the Sun, with Rahu, Ketu or Saturn involved. It points to rites the family did not complete, not to any fault in the person born.
Only a reading of your birth chart can say. The classical indicators are Rahu or Ketu in the ninth house, the Sun conjunct or aspected by Rahu or Saturn, or an afflicted ninth lord. Share your birth date, time and place when you book, and our priests will examine the chart and confirm whether this homa is the right rite for you.
Pitra Dosh and Pitra Dosha are the same term — the ancestral affliction seen in a horoscope. It is understood as a karmic debt carried by the family line, and it is addressed through ancestral offerings, charity and the sacred fire.
Traditional texts attribute it to shraddha and tarpana left unperformed, a death without proper last rites, wrongs done to elders or to those dependent on the family, and karma carried forward through the lineage. In the chart it shows as specific planetary placements around the ninth house and the Sun. The cause is understood as ancestral, never as the fault of the person reading this.
It is a Maha-tier Vedic fire ritual invoking the Pitru Devatas and Lord Yama, performed to propitiate the ancestral line where the horoscope shows Pitru Dosha. Its significance lies in settling what the tradition calls pitru rina — the debt to the forefathers — through fire, water and named remembrance, while the afflicting planets receive their own oblations.
The rite is prescribed for ancestral peace, for the blessing of the elders before marriage, childbirth or a new home, and for restoring balance to the planets carrying the dosha in the chart. Devotees also perform it to complete shraddha and tarpana that were missed in earlier years. Tradition prescribes it for these purposes; it does not promise outcomes.
Anyone whose chart shows Pitru Dosha, families where last rites or annual shraddha were left undone, and those approaching a marriage, a conception or a house-warming who wish to seek ancestral blessing first. The eldest son traditionally sponsors ancestral rites, though any family member may book on the lineage's behalf. You do not travel — our priests perform it for you at the Yagna Ashram.
Amavasya is the classical day, with Mahalaya Amavasya and the Pitru Paksha fortnight held most auspicious. Bharani and Magha nakshatras are also chosen, and the aparahna or afternoon watch is the hour prescribed for ancestral offerings. Our priests fix the muhurat from your birth details and confirm the date with you.
The priests begin with sankalpa in your name and gotra, followed by Ganapati puja and punyahavachanam. Tarpana is offered with water, black sesame and darbha grass. The kunda is consecrated, Agni invoked, and oblations of ghee, cooked rice, barley and sesame are made with the Pitru mantras and the mantras of the afflicting planets. Pinda offerings, Yama prarthana, purnahuti, aarti and Brahmana bhojana or annadana close the rite. All samagri is arranged by us.
Book online from any country. Give your name, gotra, birth details and the names of the ancestors to be remembered. Our priests fix an auspicious date, perform the homa at our Yagna Ashram on your behalf, and telecast it live to you wherever you are. Prasadam and an energised yantra are couriered to your address worldwide, free of shipping cost.
