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Executing any of the six magical acts (Shatkarma) requires performing penance afterward — traditional practitioners immediately undertake a secondary Purashcharana of the Gayatri mantra or their Ishta mantra for self-purification, since modifying someone's written destiny through ritual burdens the practitioner.

If a daughter from a Sanatana family observing Dakshinachara or Vaishnava rites leaves that tradition — for instance marrying outside it — and is brought back purely out of sympathy, the ancestors become wrathful, since her spiritually defiled aura carries impurity across the threshold onto the household's children and future descendants; the prescribed remedy is to send her first to a Ganga pilgrimage site such as Haridwar or Rudraprayag for at least a month and a quarter of guided Prayashchitta before she re-enters the home.

If the Yajnopavita hasn't been performed for three to four generations, a learned Vedic Brahmin should perform Prayashchitta at a pilgrimage site like Kashi or Vindhya for as many generations as known, followed by the Sacred Thread Ceremony — this can't be done alone.