Vivah Muhurat for a Couple

Why a personal list

The vivah muhurat page and the muhurat finder list the days that meet the marriage rules of the Muhurta Chintamani for a place. Those rules look at the sky on the day and nothing else, so they are the same for every couple. Families then ask a second question: is the day also comfortable for the two people being married? The traditional way to answer it is to check two things from each partner’s birth Moon, tarabala and chandrabala. This tool does that check for you, for both partners at once, and keeps only the days that pass.

How the days are chosen

First, the tool takes the classical marriage days for your wedding place and dates. It uses the same engine as the finder, so the list is identical: eleven accepted nakshatras, the Sun in one of six solar months, no Chaturmas or leaped month, Jupiter and Venus not combust, and no Rikta tithi, Vishti karana or the two inauspicious yogas. Each day comes with its time windows.

Second, the tool finds each partner’s Moon nakshatra and Moon sign from the birth details. If a birth time is not known, noon is used, and the tool tells you if the Moon changes sign or nakshatra during that day, because then the time matters.

Third, inside every time window the tool follows the Moon through its signs and nakshatras and judges each stretch for both partners.

• Tarabala counts from the partner’s birth nakshatra to the Moon’s nakshatra in groups of nine. Sampat, Kshema, Sadhana, Mitra and Parama Mitra are counted favourable, Vipat, Pratyak and Naidhana are avoided, and Janma is mixed.
• Chandrabala counts the Moon’s sign from the partner’s birth Moon sign. The 1st, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 10th and 11th are favourable, the 4th, 8th and 12th are avoided, and the 2nd, 5th and 9th are mixed.

These are the same rules as in the Chandrabala and Tarabala calculator and the tarabala calculator.

Reading the result

A day is marked good for both when, at some time inside a classical window, all four counts are favourable: tarabala and chandrabala for each partner. Days with no avoided count but some mixed ones are listed separately, since many families accept them. A day on which one partner has an avoided count at every hour of the window is left out, and the page says how many were left out.

Please read the list as a way to narrow the choice. The eighth house from the Moon, called Chandrashtama, is the count families avoid most, and the page shows it when it applies.

What is still to be done

This tool does not do lagna shuddhi, which is the choice of the rising sign for the time of the pheras, and it does not replace the family astrologer. The astrologer will also read both charts, the matching between them, any dosha and the customs of your family and community, and may accept or reject a date for reasons that the Moon alone does not show. If you wish to look at those matters first, the nakshatra compatibility calculator and Mangal dosha matching are good places to start.

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