Graha shaanti (was re: Gujarati wedding)

[Guest guest]

Dear swAmin,

 

Thank you for the manthrams - yes I will just use them to check

for now.

 

In the meanwhile I contacted a Gujarati Brahmana priest who told

me that the graha shaanti ritual in their weddings involves the

following steps:

 

1. Ganapati puuja

2. Kalasha puuja

3. Swasti punyaahavachanam

4. " Prajaapati pooja " of " Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh "

5. Navagraha pooja

5. " Yagnya "

 

The sankalpam given for the " yagnyam " was as follows:

 

" atradya maha mangalya falprad (phalaprada?) masotam mase

.............mase

..............pakshe...........tithou............vasere........nakshatre

............yagna pujan karishye. "

 

He said the Yagnya was for Agni, did not mention any other deities.

Is there any such homam that can be performed?

 

I have two questions: I am familiar with Ganapati, Kalasha poojas, but:

 

1) I guess Navagraha pooja is just offerring shodapacharams to

navagraha devatas?

***Yes

2) Has anyone heard of Prajaapati pooja for " Trimurti " ? I have never

heard of this in South Indian traditions. The priest said this is

just offerring shodashopacharams to Trimurti.

***Do Aavahanam with their respective aavahana manthras and do 16 upacharams -

nvs

thanks and praNAmams,

namO nArAyaNAya

Ranjan

[Guest guest]

Dear Sri VAsu Maama,

 

Thanks very much for the advice. Lastly, I don't suppose you can

identify what type of homam the sankalpam given is for?

 

> The sankalpam given for the " yagnyam " was as follows:

>

> " atradya maha mangalya falprad (phalaprada?) masotam mase

> ............mase

> .............pakshe...........tithou............vasere........nakshatre

> ...........yagna pujan karishye. "

 

 

praNAmams,

Ranjan

 

 

*** I am not able to guess it.

nvs