The devotee can pledge to light Lakh Batti literally meaning 100,000 lamps.
[1][2][3] Lakh batti is also lit on the end day of reciting Purana or other religious ceremony.
On the day of ceremony, a qualified priest performs the Karmakanda (or rituals) before lighting the wicks.
On one occasion, she meets a hermit called Yajaka and asks him the way to atone her transgression.
The hermit tells her to perform a Lakh Batti rituals to cleanses her karmic blemishes.