18/09/2024
Balsanskar Namkaran:
Guidance for finding a suitable day for Namkaran :
Counting from the child's date of birth, the 10th or the 12th or the 16th day will be a suitable day for this purpose. But if this had not been done, then a suitable day for this ceremony should be selected by considering the following factors :
(1) The weekday should be : Thursday or Friday or Wednesday or Monday. The other weekdays are not auspicious for the occasion and hence those are to be avoided.
(2) The Tithis to be avoided are : Chaturthi, Shashthi, Ashtami, Navami, Dwadashi, Chaturdashi, Poornima and Amavashya. Any tithi among the remaining others can be selected.
(3) The favourable Nakshatra days are : Ashwini, Rohini, Mrigashira, Punarvasu, Pushya, Magha, Uttara-phalguni, Hasta, Swati, Uttarashada, Shravana, Dhanishtha, Shatavisha, Uttara-bhadra and Revati. Any of these Nakshatra days might be selected for the occasion.
The Lagna of the Muhurtha chart should be such that :
(1) Jupiter remains in Lagna or in the 4th or in the 7th or in the 10th while a malefic planet (the Sun or Mars or Saturn or Rahu or Ketu) is situated in the 11th house from the Lagna.
Or :
(2) The Lagna should be Sagittarius or Pisces or Libra or Ta**us or Gemini or Virgo or Cancer, while a malefic planet (the Sun or Mars or Saturn or Rahu or Ketu) is situated in the 3rd house from the Lagna and Venus is situated in the 12th house from the Lagna.
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