Pitru Paksha (Pitru Paksha 2024) has special significance in Sanatan Dharma. This festival is dedicated to the ancestors. In this, ancestors are worshipped. Also, tarpan and pinddaan are performed daily during Pitru Paksha to give salvation to the ancestors. Pitru Paksha ends on Sarvapitre Amavasya date. It is contained in Garuda Purana that by offering tarpan to the ancestors during Pitru Paksha, ancestors of three generations attain salvation. At the same time, the blessings of the ancestors shower on the person. By their grace, a person gets all kinds of happiness. If you also want to please your ancestors, then definitely offer tarpan to your ancestors during Pitru Paksha. Also chant these mantras at the time of tarpan. 

Mantras of ancestors

1. OM PITRU DEVATAI NAMAH .

2. Om Agachchantu me pitar evam grahantu jalanjalim'

3. ॐ Tatpurushaya विद्महे Mahadevaya cha धीमहि तन्नो Rudra: prachodaya.

4. ॐ Pitraganaya विद्महे Jagat Dharini धीमहि तन्नो Pitru prachodayat.

5. ॐ To the gods, the ancestors and the great yogis

Ome: Svahayai Svadhai Nityameva Namo Namo:

6. Ancestral Gayatri Mantra

ॐ Pitraganaya विद्महे Jagat Dharini धीमहि तन्नो Pitru prachodayat.

ॐ To the gods and the ancestors and to the great yogis. "Om Svahayai Svadhai I always offer my obeisances to you"

ॐ Adya-bhutaya विद्महे Sarva-sevyaaya धीमहि। May the god of the ancestors in the form of Shiva-shakti encourage you.

7. Gotre asmatapita (name of ancestors ) Sharma Vasurupat tripyatamidam tilodakam

Ganga water or Svadha Namah to Him, Svadha Namah to Him, Svadha Namah to Him.

8. Gotre asmanmata (name of mother) Devi Vasurupast tripyatamidam tilodakam

Ganga water or Svadha Namah to him, Svadha Namah to him, Svadha Namah to him.

9. Gotre asmatpitamaha (grandfather's name) Vasurupat tripyatamidam tilodakam

Ganga water or Svadha Namah to Him, Svadha Namah to Him, Svadha Namah to Him

10. Gotre asmatpitamaha (name of grandmother) Vasurupat tripyatamidam tilodakam

Ganga water or Svadha Namah to Him, Svadha Namah to Him, Svadha Namah to Him

11. ॐ TRYAMBAKA WE PRAY FOR YOUR SUGANDHI AND PUSHTI.

Please release me from the bondage of death, just as you free me from the nectar of death.

Patristic Psalms

They worshiped the immortal forefathers, whose effulgence was effulgent.

I always bow to those meditators with divine eyes.

He was the leader of Indra and others, and he was also the leader of Dakṣa and Māricha.

I offer my obeisances to those seven sages and others who bestow all desires

The leaders of the Manus and others were the sun, moon and moon.

I offer my obeisances to all those forefathers and to the oceans

The stars, planets, air, fire and sky are all the same.

I offer my obeisances with folded hands to heaven and earth

They were the fathers of the demigods and sages, and they were worshiped by all the worlds.

I offer my obeisances with folded hands to those who always bestow inexhaustible gifts.

Kaśpa, the creator of the universe, was worshiped by the moon-god and Varuṇa.

I always offer my obeisances with folded hands to the masters of yoga.

I offer my respectful obeisances unto the seven hosts of the universe.

I offer my obeisances to the self-born Brahman, the eye of yoga.

They also worshiped the moon-gods, the Pitṛs, and the Yoga-murtis.

I offer my obeisances to the moon the father of the worlds in the same way

I offer my obeisances to the forefathers, who are in the form of fire and to others.

From whom this entire universe is composed of Agriṣoma

But those who are in the effulgence and those who are the idols of the Moon and the Sun.

They are also in the form of the universe and in the form of Brahman.

From all those yogis and forefathers, whose minds are controlled.

Obeisances, obeisances, obeisances to you, O Svadhābhuja, may you be pleased with me.