Pitra Dosh Nivaran: Cost, Timings, Benefits, and Booking

Pitra Dosh Nivaran Puja can be performed at home or at a temple. It is said that a curse from ancestors is said to be the cause of Pitra Dosha. A competent astrologer can help you identify Pitra Dosh by looking at the birth chart.

Pitta Dosha Effects

1. No male child should take the family name to the next generation.
2. Couples may remain childless even after undergoing medical treatment.
3. Frequent abortions or improper fetal development are also contributing factors.
4. Children often reject marriage proposals.
5. Children often struggle to find the right partner for their needs.
6. Children often pass away at an early age. There is a shortage of individuals capable of carrying the Gotra.
7. Frequent job changes
8. Children with mental or physical disabilities are also affected.

What is the process for identifying Pitra Dosha?

It is said that one can find out this dosha on one’s own by offering food to a crow; if it does not accept your meal, then there is some sort of dosha in your home or with your birth chart.

Another way to find out this dosha is to try feeding the street black dog; if it does not accept your meal, then there should be some problem with your birth chart.

Pitra Dosh Nivaran (Remedies) at Home

1. Reciting Gayatri Mantra
2. Offering Pindaan to pacify ancestors, which is a ritual to be followed.
3. Somvati Amavasya is the best day to pacify Pitra Devathas and to get rid of Pitra Dosh. On this day, discover a peepal tree nearby and offer one Yagnopavetham to the peepal tree. Offer a second Yagnopavetham to the peepal tree in the name of Lord Vishnu. It is said that Lord Vishnu resides in the peepal tree. Pray to the Peepal tree and Lord Vishnu. Now do 108 Pradakshinam around the peepal tree and keep tying the tree with a white raw thread. In each Pradakshinam, offer one sweet, which is made from milk, to the peepal, and keep chanting the mantra “Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya Namah.” After completing Pradakshinam, leave those sweets there, or you can offer them to a Brahmin.
4. It is mentioned in the Sastras that one should offer water, which is mixed with sesame seeds, to Pitras facing the south direction. Next, you need to offer rice balls to crows; rice balls should be mixed with purified butter and sugar.
5. The best way is to feed poor people at every Amavasya and Poornima.
6. Every day during Mahalaya Paksha, perform the Tharpana ritual.
7. Feed crows and stray black dogs daily.

Pitra Dosh Nivaran by Performing Thila Homam

Thila Homam is meant to pacify ancestors. With this Homam, unhappy souls will attain salvation. This Homam can be performed by the relatives if there was any unnatural passing in their family.

The best day for this pooja is Aadi Amavasya.

Pitru Dosha Nivarana or Thila Homam Temples

1. Ramanatha Swamy Temple, Rameswaram.
2. Swetharanyeswara Swamy Temple at Thiruvenkadu, Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu.
3. Sree Parasurama Swamy Temple in Thiruvallam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
4. Janardhana Swamy Temple in Varkala, Kerala.
5. Thirunavaya Nava Mukunda Temple in Malappuram, Kerala.
6. Naryana Nagabali Pooja at Trimbakehswara Temple.

Auspicious Days for Pitru Dosha Nivarana

January 2026	1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 31.
February 2026	1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28.
March 2026	1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30.
April 2026	1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 30.
May 2026	2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25, 27, 30, 31.
June 2026	1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 29.
July 2026	1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29.
August 2026	1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31.
September 2026	2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 28, 30
October 2026	1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 31.
November 2026	1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30.
December 2026	2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 28, 31.