Upcoming Festival-When is Trayodashi Shradh in the Year 2021

On this day shradh will be performed for the persons whose cremination was performed on Trayodashi.

   

Following is given method for performing shradh for deparated souls of our relatives. 

 

Favourite food items of the that person are specially prepared. Puja is performed and the food is offered to soul of that person. In starting a small portion of the food is offered to the Cow. If Possible one must offer food to Brahmin and donate clothes and other items as much one can afford.

A small portion of the food is also offered to the Crow. As crow is considered as a connection between the living world and the world of the dead. If possible offer food to Dogs also. Round balls of rice and flour, called pinda, are also offered, along with the sacred kusha grass and flowers, amidst sprinkling of water and chanting of mantras from the Sam Veda.

 

The Trayodashi Shradh is also performed for those who died during natural disasters and other calamities. There was nothing that these people could have done and hence the name Bholani which means innocence. As the Shradh is performed for Bala i.e children and the Bholani, as per above and the day is thirteenth the Trayodashi Shradh is known as Bala Bholani Teras.