Understand the ceremony before you book it
What each ritual means, when the muhurat falls, what to buy and what your tradition observes — written plainly, checked against practice.
Griha Pravesh: what happens, and why
Griha Pravesh is the ceremonial first entry into a new home. The word means "entering the dwelling". Its purpose is to settle the house — to acknowledge the land, the directions, the elements and the …
Read the guide →Choosing a Griha Pravesh muhurat
For Griha Pravesh, tradition looks at four things: the nakshatra, the tithi, the weekday and the lunar month. Favourable nakshatras: Rohini, Mrigashira, Chitra, Anuradha, Revati, Uttara Phalguni, Utta…
Read the guide →Satyanarayana Pooja: the vrata and its katha
Satyanarayana Pooja is a vrata — a vow observed with a specific intent. It is most often performed as an act of gratitude: after a new job, a recovery, a marriage, a house purchase, or simply on a Pur…
Read the guide →Namakarana and nakshatra syllables
Namakarana is the naming samskara, traditionally performed on the eleventh or twelfth day after birth, though many families now hold it in the first three months. It is the point at which the child fo…
Read the guide →Upanayana: the sacred thread ceremony
Upanayana means "bringing near" — bringing the boy near to a teacher, and to the study of the Vedas. It is the samskara at which he receives the yajnopavita (sacred thread) and the Gayatri mantra. Tra…
Read the guide →Shraddha: performing the annual rite
Shraddha is the annual rite performed for a departed parent or ancestor on the tithi of their passing — not on the Gregorian anniversary. Because it follows the lunar calendar, the Gregorian date shif…
Read the guide →Pitru Tarpana and Mahalaya Paksha
The fortnight of Krishna Paksha in Bhadrapada month is Mahalaya Paksha — the period set aside for ancestors. It ends with Mahalaya Amavasya, on which tarpana is offered to all ancestors regardless of …
Read the guide →Seemantha: the prenatal samskara
Seemantonnayana is performed in the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy, during the waxing moon, on a day when the moon is in a male nakshatra by tradition. Regional names differ — Valaikappu in Tami…
Read the guide →Vahana Pooja for a new vehicle
Vahana Pooja is performed on a newly purchased vehicle, before it is used regularly. The intent is protection on the road and gratitude for the acquisition. Ganapati pooja opens the rite. The purohit …
Read the guide →Ganesha Chaturthi at home
Ganesha Chaturthi falls on Shukla Chaturthi of Bhadrapada month. Families install a clay Ganesha idol at home and worship it for one and a half, three, five, seven or eleven days before immersion. The…
Read the guide →Varamahalakshmi Vrata
Varamahalakshmi Vrata is observed on the Friday before the full moon in Shravana month. It is kept chiefly by married women, for the wellbeing and prosperity of the family. The distinctive element is …
Read the guide →Navagraha Shanti: when and why
Navagraha Shanti is a remedial homa performed to pacify difficult planetary positions in a birth chart — Sade Sati, a Mangal dosha, a RahuKetu axis affliction, or an adverse mahadasha. A meaningful Na…
Read the guide →Opening a new office or shop
A commercial Vastu Shanti follows the same structure as a residential one but adds LakshmiKubera pooja — Lakshmi for prosperity, Kubera for the safekeeping of wealth. The sequence is Ganapati pooja, P…
Read the guide →Reading the panchang: tithi, nakshatra, Rahu Kalam
Panchang means "five limbs": tithi, vaara, nakshatra, yoga and karana. Together they describe the quality of a day. Tithi is a lunar day — the time the moon takes to gain 12 degrees on the sun. There …
Read the guide →Smartha, Vaishnava, Madhwa and regional traditions
The same ritual is performed differently across sampradayas: different mantras, different sequence, different deities invoked, sometimes a different calendar. Matching the purohit to your family's tra…
Read the guide →Samagri: what to buy and what we bring
Full kit — we deliver everything needed the day before, including perishables like flowers and mango leaves. Nothing for you to source. Dry samagri only — the purohit brings the dry items (haldi, kumk…
Read the guide →Gotra, pravara and the sankalpa
Every ritual opens with a sankalpa — a formal statement of intent. It locates the ritual precisely: the cosmic era, the year, the ayana, the season, the month, the paksha, the tithi, the weekday, the …
Read the guide →E-Pooja: rituals performed on your behalf
An epooja is performed by a purohit at a temple or at our ritual hall, on behalf of a family who cannot be present. The sankalpa names you and your gotra, and the entire ritual is livestreamed so you …
Read the guide →Cancellations, rescheduling and refunds
More than 48 hours before the scheduled slot: full refund of everything paid. Between 24 and 48 hours before: 50% refund. The purohit has usually already committed the day and turned down other work. …
Read the guide →ಗೃಹ ಪ್ರವೇಶ: ಏನು ನಡೆಯುತ್ತದೆ
ಗೃಹ ಪ್ರವೇಶವು ಹೊಸ ಮನೆಗೆ ಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕವಾಗಿ ಮಾಡುವ ಮೊದಲ ಪ್ರವೇಶ. ದೈನಂದಿನ ಜೀವನ ಆರಂಭವಾಗುವ ಮೊದಲು ಭೂಮಿ, ದಿಕ್ಕುಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಗೃಹದೇವತೆಗಳಿಗೆ ನಮಿಸುವುದು ಇದರ ಉದ್ದೇಶ. 1. ಗಣಪತಿ ಪೂಜೆ — ವಿಘ್ನಗಳಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಕಾರ್ಯ ನೆರವೇರಲು. 2. ಪುಣ್ಯಾ…
Read the guide →सत्यनारायण पूजा: व्रत और कथा
सत्यनारायण पूजा एक व्रत है — एक संकल्प के साथ किया जाने वाला अनुष्ठान। यह प्रायः कृतज्ञता के भाव से किया जाता है: नई नौकरी, स्वास्थ्य लाभ, विवाह, गृह क्रय के बाद, अथवा किसी भी पूर्णिमा को। पूर्णिमा प्…
Read the guide →Nakshatra birthdays and the ritual calendar
Most families in India keep two birthdays: the Gregorian date, and the janma nakshatra birthday — the day each year when the moon returns to the nakshatra it occupied at birth, within the same lunar m…
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