Muhurat by occasion
A muhurat is always the timing of a specific act, never a general verdict on a day. The same nakshatra that makes a day excellent for buying gold can make it wrong for a wedding, and the sharp stars barred from every beginning on this site are the correct ones for a surgeon. That is why there is a page per occasion rather than one calendar of "good days": each rite carries its own favoured tithis, its own nakshatra group, its own weekday lords and its own hard exclusions, and those lists genuinely disagree with each other.
Each hub below states the classical rules it applies in plain language before it shows a single date, so you can check our reasoning against your own tradition. The dates themselves are computed for New Delhi at sunrise with a Lahiri sidereal ephemeris — tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana, plus the Sun's sidereal sign for the solar-month bars and the Sun's separation from Venus and Jupiter for the combustion bars.
These are panchang-shortlisted dates, not a personal verdict. Each date below clears the classical tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana tests for this occasion, computed with a Lahiri sidereal ephemeris at New Delhi sunrise. The lagna rising at the hour you actually choose, your own birth chart (Chandra bala, running dasha, any dosha) and the day’s Rahu Kaal are NOT checked here — that layer only exists once a date is run against a real chart on the muhurat finder or with Soma.
All 20 occasions
- Marriage muhurat विवाह — A Vedic marriage muhurat is never one lucky date — it is a stack of conditions that must hold at the same moment.
- Engagement / Roka muhurat सगाई — An engagement is a promise, not yet a bond, and the classical treatment reflects that.
- Griha Pravesh muhurat गृह प्रवेश — Housewarming is the clearest case in the whole muhurat literature of a rite that wants the fixed nakshatras.
- Mundan muhurat मुंडन — Chudakarana — the first tonsure — is timed by the child's age before it is timed by the panchang.
- Namkaran muhurat नामकरण — Namakarana is the naming rite, and its classical date is fixed by the birth rather than by the calendar: the eleventh or twelfth day after delivery, once the period of ritual impurity has passed.
- Annaprashan muhurat अन्नप्राशन — Annaprashana is the first feeding of solid food, and the classical rule about it is one of the few in the whole muhurat corpus that depends on the child's sex.
- Vehicle Purchase muhurat वाहन खरीद — A vehicle is bought to move, so its muhurat wants the movable stars rather than the fixed ones.
- Property Purchase muhurat संपत्ति खरीद — Buying land or a flat is two acts wearing one name: an acquisition, and the signing of a document meant to outlast everyone in the room.
- Business Launch muhurat व्यापार आरंभ — A business launch is a Sthapana — the birth of an entity that will go on to have a chart of its own — and that is why it is timed more carefully than most acts on this site.
- Joining a New Job muhurat नई नौकरी — This is the occasion where honesty forces a different shape of page.
- Gold Purchase muhurat सोना खरीद — Buying gold has the tightest and most recognisable timing rules of any act on this site, because three named days dominate it.
- Starting Education muhurat विद्यारम्भ — Vidyarambha is the formal beginning of learning — classically the day a child first writes a letter, in practice the day a course, a school year or a serious study project starts.
- Upanayana muhurat उपनयन — The sacred thread ceremony is the most seasonally constrained rite in this list.
- Godh Bharai muhurat गोद भराई — Godh bharai is the household form of Simantonnayana, the samskara performed in the later months of pregnancy — the fifth, seventh or eighth, with odd months preferred and the seventh most common.
- Travel & Yatra muhurat यात्रा — Travel is the one occasion here where the classical rules care about which way you are going.
- Shop Opening muhurat दुकान खोलना — A shop opening is a business launch with a fixed address, and that difference is the whole of its timing.
- Company Registration muhurat कंपनी पंजीकरण — Incorporation is the creation of a legal person that is meant to outlive its founders, so of all the commercial acts on this site it is the one that leans hardest on the fixed nakshatras — Rohini, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha and Uttara Bhadrapada — with Anuradha, Shravana and Pushya usable behind them.
- Signing a Lease muhurat किरायानामा — A lease is a bond with an expiry date, and that single fact separates its timing from a property purchase.
- Opening a Bank Account muhurat नया बैंक खाता — Opening an account is a small act with a specific classical shape: you are not acquiring wealth, you are building the container it will sit in.
- Elective Surgery muhurat शल्य चिकित्सा — This is the one occasion in the list whose classical rules run the opposite way to everything else, and that inversion is the clearest proof that muhurat rules are per-act rather than a general ranking of good and bad days.
What these pages deliberately do not do
They do not rank the lagna rising at the hour you pick, they do not know your birth chart, and they do not weigh a running dasha or a dosha. Those are the factors that decide whether a well-placed day is well-placed for you, and they cannot be computed from a calendar. Treat every table on this site as the shortlist a priest would start from, not the answer they would give.
For a full personalised muhurat matched to your own birth chart, ask Soma on AskSoma.