The beginning of Pitru Paksha Shraddha is going to start on the full moon of Shukla Paksha of Bhadrapad .It is believed that these 16 days our ancestors come from the ancestral land to the earth. In these days, ancestors should be satisfied by donatingfood. During the sixteen days of Shraddh, people perform jaldan to their ancestors and perform Shraddh on their death date.