01What is a property purchase muhurat?
A property muhurat is an elected time for acquiring land or a building, Muhurta being the branch of classical Jyotish that asks when a thing should begin rather than what it will come to. The day is read through the panchang, and three limbs decide it: the nakshatra the Moon occupies, the tithi, and the vara or weekday. The tradition's preference for property runs heavily to the stars it classes as fixed, which is the same preference it applies to foundations, wells and plantings: the whole category of things put somewhere to stay. A land purchase is elected more strictly than a vehicle and less strictly than a marriage, and it is one of three separate elections a property usually involves, which the section below distinguishes.
02Which nakshatras are used for buying land or property?
Eleven nakshatras are used here: Rohini, Mrigashira, Uttara Phalguni, Chitra, Swati, Anuradha, Uttara Ashadha, Dhanishta, Shatabhisha, Uttara Bhadrapada and Revati. The muhurta texts classify all twenty-seven by temperament (fixed, soft, swift, movable, mixed, fierce and sharp) and match each class to its work. Property draws on the fixed and the soft above all, with a small movable component that surprises people until they see the reasoning. Nothing from the fierce, sharp or mixed classes appears. Grouped by class, the eleven are these.
The fixed stars: the core of the list
Rohini, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha and Uttara Bhadrapada are the dhruva or sthira class, and they carry the tradition's clearest preference for anything to do with land. The texts give this class to laying foundations, digging wells, planting orchards and building, the works whose whole point is that they do not move afterwards. Where a search returns several acceptable days, a fixed star is the one to take, and the scoring reflects that.
The soft stars: Mrigashira, Chitra, Anuradha, Revati
The mridu or maitra class appears in full: Mrigashira, Chitra, Anuradha and Revati. Chitra is the one to note: its name means bright or variegated, its deity is Tvashtar the celestial architect, and the tradition ties it directly to building, design and craft. It is the star most often named for both the buying of a plot and the drawing of the house that goes on it.
Swati, Dhanishta and Shatabhisha, the movable three
Swati, Dhanishta and Shatabhisha come from the chara class, normally reserved for travel and vehicles, and their presence in a land list is worth explaining. Each is admitted on its own associations rather than its class: Swati for trade and exchange, which is what a purchase is; Dhanishta for wealth and property in the literal sense of its name; Shatabhisha for boundary and enclosure. Two of the three fall inside the Panchaka span.
03Which tithis are excluded for a property purchase?
The Rikta tithis and Amavasya are dropped, exactly as they are for every other occasion on this site. Rikta means empty and names the fourth, ninth and fourteenth tithi of each fortnight, six days in a lunar month. Amavasya is the dark Moon, given in the tradition to the ancestors rather than to a beginning, and the muhurta literature treats the Moon's strength as the most consequential single fact about an elected day. Both are properties of the calendar and are applied identically to everyone; neither reflects anything about you or the property. The tithi running on any date, for any place, is on our daily panchang.
The five tithi groups and where Rikta falls
A fortnight's fifteen tithis 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 purchase the tradition prefers Bhadra, Jaya and Purna. Because Rikta recurs every fifth tithi, the excluded days are evenly spread through the month rather than clustered, which is why a search rarely loses a whole week at once.
Registration day versus possession day
Property involves a date the registrar sets and a date you set, and they are frequently not the same. The tradition elects the moment of acquisition: the signing, or the taking of possession, whichever actually transfers the thing. Where the registry office gives you no choice of date, the usual practice is to elect the hour within the day instead, using the Choghadiya windows further down this page. The day and the hour are separate elections and either can be used on its own.
04Which weekdays are favoured for a land purchase?
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are counted in favour, and Tuesday and Saturday against. The weekday is read through its planetary lord: the Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus rule the four favoured days and are the tradition's benefics, while Mars rules Tuesday and Saturn rules Saturday. Thursday carries a particular weight for property because Jupiter is the karaka the tradition assigns to wealth and to expansion, and Friday because Venus governs comfort and dwelling. Sunday is neutral here, neither counted for nor against. As everywhere on this site, an unfavourable weekday alone does not discard a day; it lowers its rating, and only a failing nakshatra alongside it removes the day from the list.
05Which yogas rule a day out?
Four nakshatra-and-weekday yogas cancel a day whatever else it offers (Mrityu, Dagdha, Yamaghata and Utpata), and four raise it: Amrit Siddhi, Sarvartha Siddhi, Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya. These come from the classical panchanga tables, where each yoga pairs particular stars with particular weekdays, and this finder checks them first, before the ordinary nakshatra and tithi scoring. An auspicious yoga lifts a rating; it does not rescue a day already excluded by Amavasya. Note that Pushya is not in the property nakshatra list, so the two Pushya yogas can be reported as running without making the day usable on their own.
Mrityu, Dagdha, Yamaghata and Utpata
Each of the four cancelling yogas pairs exactly one nakshatra with one weekday. Dagdha means burnt and Utpata means a portent; the names are the tradition's own and the results keep them rather than reducing a rule to a colour. Because each is a single pair, cancelled days are uncommon, one or two in a month-long search, and when one appears the result says which of the four is responsible instead of returning an unexplained rejection.
Amrit Siddhi and Sarvartha Siddhi
Amrit Siddhi gives one nakshatra to each weekday: Hasta on Sunday, Mrigashira on Monday, Ashwini on Tuesday, Anuradha on Wednesday, Pushya on Thursday, Revati on Friday, Rohini on Saturday. Four of those seven stars are in the property list, so the yoga is reachable here. Sarvartha Siddhi, the accomplisher of every purpose, is the wider table of several stars per weekday and turns up in most month-long searches.
06Is bhumi pujan the same as the purchase muhurat?
No. A property normally carries three separate elections, and confusing them is the commonest mistake here. The purchase is the transfer of the thing: the registration or the taking of possession, which is what this page elects. Bhumi pujan or shilanyas is the breaking of ground and the laying of the foundation, a separate beginning with its own rules that lean even harder on the fixed nakshatras. Griha pravesh is the first entry once the house is habitable, and it has its own exclusions, including three weekdays rather than two, which is why it has its own page. A date elected for one of the three is not automatically fit for the others, and the tradition would have you elect each in its turn.
07What hour of the day should the papers be signed?
The finder returns the day's good Choghadiya periods (Amrit, Shubh and Labh), with any that collide with Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda or Gulika Kalam removed, and adds Abhijit, the muhurta straddling solar noon, on every day but Wednesday, when the tradition holds it not to apply. For a transaction the conventional preference is Labh, the Choghadiya of gain, and Abhijit is the fallback that exists on almost every day. Every window is computed from the true sunrise and sunset at the place you enter: the Choghadiya are eighths of the daylight, not fixed clock hours, so they shift by city and by season and a time lifted from a national calendar can be well out for yours.
08What does this property muhurat finder not check?
It does not read your birth chart and it is not a substitute for a title search. A fuller traditional election would weigh the Moon against your own janam nakshatra, the dasha running at the time, the lagna rising at the chosen hour, and the seasonal months the tradition closes. What this page supplies is the calendar layer (nakshatra, tithi, weekday and the yoga tables), computed for your city rather than copied from a printed panchang, so a shortlist exists before anybody is consulted. No ritual is implied. For one date in detail see the daily muhurat page.
