01What is a griha pravesh muhurat?
Griha pravesh is the first entry into a home, and the muhurta for it is elected rather than predicted. Muhurta is the branch of classical Jyotish that asks when a thing should begin, not what it will come to. The tradition reads the day through the panchang and treats the nakshatra, the tithi and the vara as decisive, with a strong preference for the stars it classes as fixed. The reasoning is consistent with everything else the fixed stars are used for: a house entry belongs with foundations and plantings, the category of things meant to stay where they are put. Classical practice also distinguishes three kinds of entry, and the distinction is worth knowing before you pick a date, because not all three are elected with the same strictness.
Apurva: the first entry into a newly built house
Apurva griha pravesh is the entry into a house newly built or newly bought and never before lived in by the family. It is the strictest of the three, and it is the one the classical exclusions were written for: the fixed nakshatras, the weekday rules, the seasonal blackouts. If you are moving into a just-finished flat or a house you have just purchased, this is the case you are in, and the tradition would have you take the strongest available day rather than the merely acceptable one.
Sapurva: re-entry after an absence
Sapurva griha pravesh is the return to a house the family already owns and has lived in, after a long absence (a posting elsewhere, a stay abroad, a period the house stood empty). The tradition treats it as a resumption rather than a beginning and elects it more lightly. A day that clears the nakshatra and tithi tests is generally held sufficient here even where the weekday is only neutral.
Dwandwah: entry after repair or rebuilding
Dwandwah griha pravesh, sometimes called Dwandwa, is the entry after the house has been repaired, rebuilt or substantially altered: after fire or flood damage in the classical framing, after a renovation in the modern one. It sits between the other two in strictness. The same screening applies; what changes is how much weight a family gives to a day that clears the tests without carrying an auspicious yoga.
02Which nakshatras are auspicious for griha pravesh?
Ten nakshatras are used by this finder for a house entry: Rohini, Mrigashira, Pushya, Uttara Phalguni, Chitra, Anuradha, Uttara Ashadha, Shatabhisha, Uttara Bhadrapada and Revati. The muhurta texts sort all twenty-seven nakshatras into seven classes by temperament (fixed, soft, swift, movable, mixed, fierce and sharp) and assign each class the work it suits. A house entry draws on the first four and takes nothing at all from the fierce, sharp or mixed classes, which is why this list is shorter than the one used for a wedding or a new business. Grouped by class, the ten fall out as follows.
The fixed stars: Rohini and the three Uttaras
Rohini, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha and Uttara Bhadrapada form the dhruva or sthira class, and they are the core of the griha pravesh list. The texts give this class to everything meant to be permanent: laying a foundation, digging a well, planting, coronation, and entering a house. Where a search returns several acceptable days, the tradition's own preference is the one falling on a fixed star, and the finder scores them accordingly.
The soft stars: Mrigashira, Chitra, Anuradha, Revati
All four members of the mridu or maitra class are in the list: Mrigashira, Chitra, Anuradha and Revati. The texts assign the soft stars to ornament, art, clothing, friendship and the making of domestic ties, which is the second half of what a house entry is read as: not only permanence but settlement. Chitra in particular is associated with construction and craft, and it is the one star used for both the building and the entering.
Pushya and Shatabhisha, the swift and the movable
Pushya is kshipra or laghu, the swift class, and it is the most broadly auspicious single nakshatra in the whole tradition; the texts say almost no undertaking is refused under it. Shatabhisha is chara, the movable class, normally reserved for travel and vehicles; it is admitted here on the strength of its own associations with healing and enclosure. It also falls inside the Panchaka span, which the section below explains.
03Which tithis are avoided for a housewarming?
The Rikta tithis and Amavasya are excluded outright. Rikta means empty, and it names the fourth, ninth and fourteenth tithi of each fortnight: six days in every lunar month, three in the waxing half and three in the waning. Amavasya, the new moon, is given in the tradition to the ancestors rather than to a beginning, and the muhurta texts read the Moon's strength as the most important single fact about an elected day. Neither exclusion has anything to do with your chart; both are properties of the calendar, applied the same way to everybody. The running tithi for any date and place is on our daily panchang, which is the fastest way to check a date a builder or a relative has proposed to you.
The five tithi groups
The fifteen tithis of a fortnight cycle through five named groups: Nanda (1, 6, 11), Bhadra (2, 7, 12), Jaya (3, 8, 13), Rikta (4, 9, 14) and Purna (5, 10, 15). For a house entry the tradition leans on Bhadra, Jaya and Purna, uses Nanda with less enthusiasm, and drops Rikta. The five-day cycle is also why the dates a search returns are spaced the way they are rather than evenly.
Why the bright fortnight returns more days
Shukla paksha, the waxing fortnight, tends to produce more acceptable dates than krishna paksha. There is no separate rule saying so; it follows from the Moon growing rather than shrinking through it, and from Amavasya sitting at the far end of the dark fortnight instead. If a search comes back sparse, the paksha it covered is usually the reason, and extending the window by a fortnight is the fix.
04Which weekdays suit a griha pravesh, and why are three avoided?
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are the favoured weekdays, and this is the one occasion on the site where three days are counted against rather than two: Sunday, Tuesday and Saturday. The weekday is read through its planetary lord. The Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus rule the four favoured days and are the benefics of the tradition. Mars rules Tuesday and Saturn rules Saturday, both malefic for a beginning. Sunday is neutral for most occasions but is specifically excluded for house entry in the muhurta literature, on the Sun's fierce, ungentle character, the same reasoning that keeps Sunday out of the fixed-star pairings elsewhere. A day whose weekday is avoided is not discarded on its own; it is discarded when the nakshatra fails too, and otherwise it is returned with a lower rating.
05Which yogas decide the day outright?
Some nakshatra-and-weekday combinations form named yogas that outrank the ordinary scoring. Four are auspicious: Amrit Siddhi, Sarvartha Siddhi, Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya. Four cancel the day: Mrityu, Dagdha, Yamaghata and Utpata. These are the classical panchanga tables, and this finder checks them before anything else. A day carrying one of the cancelling four is rated avoid however good its nakshatra and tithi are; an auspicious yoga raises a rating but does not restore a day that Amavasya has already ruled out. Every yoga found on a day is named in the results, so you can see the reason rather than only the verdict.
Amrit Siddhi and Sarvartha Siddhi
Amrit Siddhi pairs exactly one nakshatra with each weekday: Hasta on Sunday, Mrigashira on Monday, Ashwini on Tuesday, Anuradha on Wednesday, Pushya on Thursday, Revati on Friday, Rohini on Saturday. Five of those stars are in the griha pravesh list, so the yoga is reachable here. Sarvartha Siddhi, the accomplisher of every purpose, is a wider table of several stars per weekday and turns up more often.
Mrityu, Dagdha, Yamaghata and Utpata
Each of these four pairs a single nakshatra with a single weekday, and the tradition holds a beginning back while any of them runs. Dagdha means burnt, Utpata means a portent, and we keep the classical names rather than reducing them to a colour. Because each is one pair, a cancelled day is uncommon in a month-long search, and when it happens the result names which of the four is responsible.
06What is Panchaka, and does it stop a house entry?
Panchaka is the span while the Moon crosses the last five nakshatras (Dhanishta, Shatabhisha, Purva Bhadrapada, Uttara Bhadrapada and Revati), roughly five days in every lunar month. The tradition names five kinds of work to hold back during it, and roofing a house and gathering fuel are two of them, which is why Panchaka comes up constantly in a building conversation. Its character is set by the weekday it starts on: Roga on Sunday, Raja on Monday, Agni on Tuesday, Chora on Friday and Mrityu on Saturday, with Wednesday and Thursday carrying no specific dosha at all. Note that three of the five Panchaka stars are in the griha pravesh list above. The classical position is that the entry itself is not among the five restricted works, and Raja Panchaka is read as favourable outright. Our daily muhurat page states the Panchaka status of any single date.
07What time of day should the entry be made?
Once the day is fixed the hour is chosen inside it. The finder returns the day's good Choghadiya periods (Amrit, Shubh and Labh), with any that collide with Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda or Gulika Kalam already removed, and adds Abhijit, the muhurta around solar noon, on every day but Wednesday, when the tradition holds it not to apply. All of these are computed from the real sunrise and sunset at the place you enter rather than from a standard clock, which is the whole reason the place field is required: the Choghadiya divide the daylight into eight, and daylight differs by more than an hour across India on the same date. A window copied from a national calendar can be badly out for your city.
08What does this griha pravesh finder not check?
It does not read anybody's birth chart, and it does not apply the seasonal calendar. A full traditional election would also weigh the Moon's position relative to the head of the household, the running dashas, the lagna rising at the chosen hour, and the months the tradition closes: the Chaturmas stretch and the Kharmas weeks while the Sun transits Dhanu and Meen. None of those is a panchang limb, so none is screened here. What this page gives you is the calendar layer, computed for your city rather than looked up, so a shortlist exists before anyone is consulted. No puja is implied by any of it. For a single date in full detail, use the daily muhurat page.
