Sarvapitri Amavasya 2025: Date & Significance of Donations
Religion
Know when Sarvapitri Amavasya falls this year and which donations are considered auspicious to bring peace and happiness to your ancestors’ souls.
Sarvapitri Amavasya falls on Sunday, September 21st. Several auspicious yogas are forming on this day, and the last solar eclipse of the year will also occur on this date, further enhancing its significance. Shraddha and donations performed on this day please the ancestors and alleviate all suffering from their descendants, bestowing the family with the blessings of health, prosperity, and contentment. As the day of the ancestors' departure, Sarvapitri Amavasya holds a special significance for every caste and family.
Auspicious time for Shraddha and Tarpan
The Amavasya date begins at 12:16 am on September 21, 2025, and ends at 1:23 am on September 22, 2025.
Kutup Muhurta: 11:50 am to 12:38 pm
Rohini Muhurta: 12:38 pm to 1:27 pm
What to do on Sarvapitri Amavasya? (Sarbapitri Amavasya 2025)
Special rituals are performed on this day to appease the ancestors. If you have forgotten the death anniversary of your ancestors or have been unable to perform Shraddha for some reason, this is the best time to perform Tarpan.
Shraddha, Tarpan, and Pind Daan: Perform Tarpan for your ancestors as per the rituals on this day. Offer water, food, sesame seeds, and clothes.
Food: Prepare food for the ancestors. According to the scriptures, married couples should perform Shraddha together on this day.
Donating on Sarvapitri Amavasya pleases the ancestors and blesses their descendants with happiness and prosperity. Donating these things, depending on your financial situation, is considered highly auspicious.
Donate food, grains, and clothes to the needy.
Donating sesame seeds, jaggery, and honey is also beneficial for appeasing the ancestors.
Donating gold, silver, an umbrella, shoes, a cow (cow), land, and dakshina is also a very virtuous act.
Through Shraddha and donations performed on this day, the ancestors alleviate all suffering from their descendants, ensuring happiness, health, prosperity, and contentment in the family.