Gold Buying Muhurat: Jewellery Purchase Days by the Muhurta Chintamani

Families often like to buy gold or jewellery on a good day, and the Muhurta Chintamani has a short general rule for buying (kraya): verse 16 of its Nakshatra prakarana (chapter 2). It has no separate verse for gold, so this page applies that buying rule and lists the days in New Delhi on which it holds. The purchase is the act checked here; wearing new gold for the first time has its own verse, mentioned below.

How it works

Verse numbers are those of the edition with Mahidhara Sharma’s Hindi commentary (Venkateshwar Press).

Nakshatra (verse 16). The verse first says that a nakshatra meant for selling should not be used for buying, nor one for buying used for selling, and then names the nakshatras good for buying: Revati, Shatabhisha, Ashwini, Swati, Shravana and Chitra. Mahidhara Sharma adds that the rule is for beginning a purchase, not for every day’s trade.

The day. The verse names no weekday or tithi. From the general rule of chapter 1, verse 34 we apply, as for every event here: no Amavasya, no Vishti karana, no Vyatipata or Vaidhriti yoga, and not in a leaped month; the rest of that verse is named under What it does not do. We also leave out the Rikta tithis (Chaturthi, Navami, Chaturdashi), which Mahidhara Sharma, on chapter 1, verse 3, calls unsuitable for auspicious work. Any weekday is accepted.

Reading the result

Each listed day has a window of at least five minutes in which the nakshatra and the other conditions hold, with the nakshatra and tithi shown. Shops keep their own hours, so look at where the window falls within the day; a window after midnight belongs to the day before. For another city use the muhurat finder.

Where traditions differ

Some families buy gold on Dhanteras, Akshaya Tritiya or a Guru Pushya day by custom, and treat those days as good in themselves. The buying verse does not name Pushya, so Pushya days are not in this table unless another accepted nakshatra also falls on the day. The festival dates are on the Dhanteras and Akshaya Tritiya pages. Verse 19 of the same chapter gives a separate rule for having jewellery made, which is not about buying, so it is not applied here. The buying verse could also be read for other purchases, but our vehicle and property pages keep to the rules they were built on, the journey rule and the Vastu prakarana, and each explains why, so their days differ from this page.

What it does not do

It says nothing about prices, purity or where to buy, and it is not financial advice. It does not check the hour by lagna or the buyer’s own chart. For first wearing, verse 10 of the same chapter gives its own nakshatras and asks that new gold, coral and clothes not be first worn on a Rikta tithi or on Saturday, Monday or Tuesday, with red things allowed on Tuesday; that verse is used by our gemstone wearing muhurat for stones set in gold. Chapter 1, verses 34 and 35 also name things every auspicious act avoids that this page does not check: the person’s own birth nakshatra, month and tithi and a parent’s shraddha day; a day touched by three tithis or a tithi that touches three days (tithi kshaya and vriddhi); kulika, the half-prahara and mahapata; and the opening part of the yogas Vishkambha, Vajra, Shoola, Ganda, Atiganda and Vyaghata and the first half of Parigha. An almanac that applies them may list fewer days. The lost (kshaya) month that verse 34 also names, a lunar month in which the Sun enters two signs between one new moon and the next (as Mahidhara Sharma explains it), is left out; from 1952 to 2073 there are two, beginning with the new moons of 16 November 1963 and 14 January 1983, Indian time. The muhurat hub has the other events.

Gold and jewellery buying days for New Delhi, October 2026 to December 2027: 135 days

All 135 days are given below with their time windows. The closest list to this one is the namakaran list: 70 of these 135 days are namakaran days too, and on 36 of them the window is the same.

October 2026: 8 days

November 2026: 7 days

December 2026: 10 days

January 2027: 11 days

February 2027: 8 days

March 2027: 6 days

April 2027: 12 days

May 2027: 9 days

June 2027: 10 days

July 2027: 9 days

August 2027: 7 days

September 2027: 7 days

October 2027: 10 days

November 2027: 9 days

December 2027: 12 days

Gold buying questions

↳ Which nakshatras are good for buying gold?

The Muhurta Chintamani's buying rule names Revati, Shatabhisha, Ashwini, Swati, Shravana and Chitra. It is the text's general rule for buying goods; there is no separate verse for gold.

↳ Is Pushya nakshatra good for buying gold?

Some families think so, especially on a Thursday (Guru Pushya). The buying verse of the Muhurta Chintamani does not list Pushya, so this table does not either. Follow your family's custom.

↳ Why does the list have so many days?

The verse gives six nakshatras and no weekday, and the Moon passes through one of them several times in every lunar month.

↳ Is this the right day to wear new jewellery?

Not necessarily. First wearing has its own verse, with different nakshatras and weekdays. This table is for the purchase.

↳ Can I get the days for my own city?

Yes. The muhurat finder runs the same rule for any place and dates.

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