Muhūrta Picker
Scan a date range; rank each day per classical activity-rule register (vāra + tithi + nakṣatra + paksha). Five activities supported at v1: marriage, business launch, travel, property purchase, medical (treatment-start).
About This Reading
What This Reading Is, And How It Works
A muhūrta is an auspicious moment chosen for a specific activity. The Indian timing-science tradition holds that beginning an activity in the right cosmic configuration aligns its outcome with the configuration’s qualities. This picker scans a date range and ranks each day for your chosen activity.
What This Reading Tells You
- Top-ranked dates for the activity you select — marriage, business launch, travel, property purchase, or medical treatment.
- For each top date: the day’s vāra, tithi, nakṣatra, yoga, and karaṇa, plus the reasoning behind the score.
- Counts of auspicious, neutral, and inauspicious days across the date range.
- Detailed score bands so you can see what makes one day better than another.
Classical Tradition
The muhūrta tradition rests on the Muhūrta-Cintāmaṇi (Rāmācārya, ~17th c.) and the Muhūrta-Mārtaṇḍa, with antecedents in Bṛhat Saṁhitā. Each activity-type has its classical rules: which weekdays support it, which lunar days, which lunar mansions, which yogas — and which to avoid.
How We Compute It
For each day in your range, we compute the pañcāṅga (vāra / tithi / nakṣatra / yoga / paksha), then score each against the classical activity-rule register for your chosen activity. The score combines the contributions of each factor; the top-ranked days are the days the classical rules support most strongly.
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