Ghar Parampara — home tradition
Every home rite, done the way it is meant to be.
No pandit needed. The words, the actions and the order, guided step by step — spoken in your family's own name and gotra.
Lakshmi Puja is live today. The other rites are being added one at a time.
Lakshmi Puja · 29 steps
Watch a rite, step by step.
The app opens on the first step and waits for you. It keeps the order, gives you the words, and tells you what to do with your hands. You set the pace.
Every word, written the way you say it
om DEE-puh-jyoh-tih puh-ruh-BRUH-muh — with the Devanagari above it, and a recorded voice that says the line before you repeat it.
What to do with your hands
“Take a few grains of rice in your right hand. Hold them as you recite the invitation.” Then: place the rice before her.
What to use if you can't find something
“Ghee diya, or an oil lamp or candle.” Every step lists what it needs and what works instead.
Sankalpa
The rite is performed in your name.
Before anything is offered, you state who you are, where you are standing and what you have come to do. The app writes that sentence for you and reads it aloud, pronounced correctly.
Om tat sat. Today, Sunday the eighth of November, two thousand and twenty-six, in New York, United States — I, Arjun Sharma, of the Bharadwaj gotra, together with my household, perform this Lakshmi Puja for the wellbeing, steadiness and prosperity of my family.
Example — your own details fill in from three questions
Your family's dates
Your father's shraddha is not on the same day in Mumbai and in New York.
A tithi begins and ends at a different clock time in each city. From one ordinary date — the day he passed — we work out the annual shraddha and your family's day in Pitru Paksha, for the city where the rite will actually be performed.
Mumbai
Tuesday
23 September
Tithi ends 4:12 pm local
New York
Monday
22 September
Tithi ends 6:42 am local
Example of one family's result, from a single date of passing. Both days are correct — each is computed where the rite is performed.
Three questions, once
Born on, at, and in.
That is everything we need. From three answers we work out your nakshatra, your tithi, the Hindu date, your rashi and your lagna — and then every observance your family keeps, year after year, without you looking anything up again.
Don't know the hour? A part of the day is enough.
Example entries
Substitutions
Use what you have.
A rite should not stop because a shop three thousand miles away sells something you cannot buy here. Every step lists what it asks for, and what stands in for it.
| Ganga jal | Clean water, from any source |
| Roli / kumkum | Turmeric with a pinch of lime |
| Akshata (unbroken rice) | Any uncooked white rice |
| Ghee diya | An oil lamp, or a candle |
| Mango leaves | Any clean fresh leaves |
And what you don't need to know
Leave it blank.
Your family can fill it in later from one link, or we work it out from what you have already given us. Nothing here stops you beginning.
For the people who know
Your elders confirm with one link.
Send your mother a link. She opens it on her own phone, in her own script, reads the gotra and the date, and taps to confirm or correct them. There is nothing to install, no account to make, and no password for her to remember.
What she confirms is what the rite is performed with.
What families perform at home
Every rite your home keeps.
One rite is complete and live today. The rest are being built one at a time, in the same way — nothing is listed here before it is finished.
Diwali
Lakshmi Puja
Available — 29 steps
A new house
Griha Pravesh
In progress
A new beginning
Havan
In progress
Remembering a parent
Shraddha & Tarpan
In progress
A new car
Vahana Puja
In progress
A birthday
Ayushya Homa
In progress
We do not make predictions, name doshas, or sell remedies. Facts and ceremonies only.
Everything this app tells you is either a date computed from astronomy, or a rite recorded as it has been performed. We will never tell you that something bad will happen, and we will never sell you the fix.
If a step is uncertain, or families do it differently, the app says so rather than choosing for you.
Questions families ask.
Do I need to know Sanskrit?
No. Every mantra appears three ways: in Devanagari, written out the way it sounds, and read aloud by a recorded voice. You hear the line, then say it. If you would rather not say it at all, you can say “tathastu” instead and the rite continues.
Does this replace a pandit?
No. You perform the rite yourself, in your own home, and the app keeps the order, the words and the timing. When your family wants a pandit present, that has always been your choice, and nothing here argues with it.
What if I don't have something the step asks for?
Every step lists what it needs and what works instead — clean water for Ganga jal, turmeric with lime for kumkum, a candle for a ghee diya. The rite continues.
Why is my father's shraddha on a different day than my brother's in India?
Because a tithi ends at a different clock time in each city. Both days are correct. The app computes the day for the place where the rite is actually performed, which is why your date in New York can differ from your brother's in Mumbai.
What happens to my family's details?
Your gotra, lineage and family dates are stored for your household and used only to compute your dates and write your sankalpa.
Keep the rites your parents kept.
Three questions, and the first rite is ready to perform tonight.