Today’s festivals

Monthly Shiva worship night — fast and evening puja

• Night vigil
• Shiva puja
• Rudrabhishek

Last and most important day of Pitru Paksha — all ancestor worship

• Tarpan
• Pinda Daan
• Brahmin bhojan

New Moon — ancestral prayers and Pitru Tarpan

• Pitru Tarpan
• Ancestor remembrance
• Shradh

Spans 15 days

Fifteen days of ancestor worship (Day 14 of 15)