01What is a gold purchase muhurat?
A gold purchase muhurat is an elected time. Muhurta, the electional branch of Jyotish, does not ask what will happen; it asks when a thing that is going to be done should begin. For a purchase of gold or jewellery the day is read through the panchang, and three of its five limbs carry the decision: the nakshatra the Moon stands in, the tithi, and the vara or weekday. Most households already know three anchors by name: Dhanteras, Akshaya Tritiya and any day the Moon is in Pushya. These anchors are festivals and calendar facts rather than a reading of anybody's chart. This page computes the same layer for whatever window you give it, so a date outside the three famous ones can be judged by the same rules instead of guessed at.
02Which nakshatras are auspicious for buying gold?
Fourteen of the twenty-seven nakshatras are used for a gold or jewellery purchase in the standard muhurta handbooks, and this finder scores exactly that set: Ashwini, Rohini, Mrigashira, Punarvasu, Pushya, Uttara Phalguni, Hasta, Chitra, Anuradha, Uttara Ashadha, Shravana, Dhanishta, Uttara Bhadrapada and Revati. The list is wider than the one used for a wedding because the texts treat an acquisition as lighter work than a sacrament. It is drawn from four of the seven temperament classes the nakshatras are sorted into: the fixed, the soft, the swift and the movable. The classes the tradition calls fierce and sharp are kept out of it entirely.
The dhruva (fixed) stars
Rohini, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha and Uttara Bhadrapada are the dhruva or sthira class, assigned in the texts to whatever is meant to stay where it is put. Gold is the household's stored wealth rather than a thing consumed, which is why the fixed stars head this list as they head the list for property. Where two candidate days are otherwise equal, the tradition's stated preference is the fixed one.
The mridu (soft) stars
Mrigashira, Chitra, Anuradha and Revati carry the mridu or maitra classification: the soft, friendly stars the texts assign to ornament, dress, music and the making of beautiful things. Chitra in particular is the star of the craftsman, which is why the handbooks name it for jewellery specifically rather than for bullion. These four give the list its character on the ornament side, where the fixed stars give it the storage side.
The laghu (swift) stars
Ashwini, Pushya and Hasta are the laghu or kshipra class, the swift and light stars used for trade, for transactions and for anything meant to be completed quickly. Pushya is the most used day in the whole of this list: the texts call it the nourisher, and North Indian practice in particular treats a Pushya day as the ordinary answer when a purchase cannot wait for a festival.
The chara (movable) stars
Punarvasu, Shravana and Dhanishta belong to the chara or movable class. The texts assign the class to travel, to vehicles and to goods that change hands, and the handbooks carry them into a purchase list for that reason. Shravana and Dhanishta are the two that also appear in the Panchaka span, which the results flag separately so you can see both facts about the day at once.
03Which tithis are excluded for a gold purchase?
Two exclusions are absolute here: the Rikta tithis and Amavasya. Rikta means empty, and it names the fourth, ninth and fourteenth tithi of each paksha: six days in a lunar month, counting both the waxing and the waning fortnight. Amavasya, the dark Moon, closes the waning fortnight and is given in the tradition to the ancestors rather than to an acquisition. Neither exclusion says anything about the buyer; both are categories of the calendar applied identically to every date. The tithi is also the limb you can check for yourself in a minute. Our daily panchang names the running tithi and its paksha for any date and city.
04Which weekdays are used for buying gold, and which are avoided?
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are the four weekdays this finder counts in favour of a gold purchase, and Tuesday and Saturday are the two it counts against. The reasoning is the planetary lordship of the day. The Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus rule the favoured four, and Venus (the karaka the tradition assigns to ornament and luxury) is why Friday is used so heavily for jewellery. Mars rules Tuesday and Saturn rules Saturday, and both are read as unsuited to taking a valuable into the house. Sunday is neutral rather than favoured: it neither raises a day's score nor rules it out, which is why Sundays still appear in the results at a lower rating.
05Which yogas raise or cancel a day for a purchase?
Certain nakshatra-and-weekday pairs form named yogas that outrank the ordinary scoring in both directions. Four are auspicious: Amrit Siddhi, Sarvartha Siddhi, Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya. Four cancel a day outright: Mrityu, Dagdha, Yamaghata and Utpata. These are the classical panchanga tables and they are checked before anything else, so a day carrying one of the four cancelling yogas is rated avoid however good its nakshatra and tithi look. The reverse does not hold: an auspicious yoga raises a rating but does not rescue a day Amavasya has already removed.
Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya
Guru Pushya is Pushya falling on a Thursday and Ravi Pushya is Pushya falling on a Sunday. Both are named in the muhurta literature for purchases above all other uses, and the gold list contains Pushya, so both can and do turn up in these results. Guru Pushya is the stronger of the two here, because Thursday is already a favoured weekday for this work while Sunday is only neutral.
The four yogas that cancel a day
Mrityu, Dagdha, Yamaghata and Utpata each pair a single nakshatra with a single weekday, and the tradition holds an auspicious beginning back when one of them is running. Dagdha means burnt and Utpata means a portent; these are the tradition's own names and we keep them rather than softening them into a colour. Because each is one pair, a cancelled day is uncommon, and the result names the yoga responsible instead of returning an unexplained rejection.
06Are Dhanteras, Akshaya Tritiya and Pushya days muhurats of their own?
They are the three anchors the practice is actually built on, and they are calendar facts rather than a reading of anybody's chart. Dhanteras is the thirteenth tithi of the dark fortnight of Kartika and opens the Diwali sequence; buying metal on it is a custom the texts do not legislate but regional practice has made close to universal. Akshaya Tritiya is the third tithi of the bright fortnight of Vaishakha, and its name (akshaya, undiminishing) is the whole of the reason it is used. A Pushya day is the classical answer rather than the festive one, named in the handbooks for purchases outright. All three fall inside this finder's rules when the rest of the day agrees, and none of them overrides a cancelling yoga.
07What does this gold purchase muhurat finder not check?
It does not read your birth chart. A fuller traditional election would also weigh the Moon against your own janma nakshatra, the dasha running at the time, and the lagna rising at the hour you walk into the shop. It also does not screen the seasonal exclusions (the Chaturmas months, the Kharmas weeks while the Sun transits Dhanu and Meen, or the combustion of Jupiter and Venus), because none of those is a panchang limb. What this page does is the calendar layer, computed from the true sunrise at the city you enter rather than copied from a national table. We sell no puja and no consultation. The daily muhurat page shows the same windows for a single date in more detail.
