- Can we buy gold on Amavasya?
- Classical muhurta keeps Amavasya, the new moon, out of shubha karya, the auspicious beginnings, and assigns it instead to pitru karma: tarpana and shraddha for the ancestors. On that reading a gold purchase meant as an auspicious acquisition is better moved to another day, and this page scores Amavasya down for exactly that reason. Traditions do differ, and it is worth saying so rather than pretending otherwise. Kartika Amavasya is Diwali, and buying gold or silver on Lakshmi Puja day is ordinary household practice across much of western and northern India. Somvati Amavasya, an Amavasya that falls on a Monday, is likewise treated as a fit day for snana, dana and family observance in North Indian custom. Neither of those is a muhurta text overruling itself. They are living practice sitting alongside the text, and a family that follows one of them is not doing anything indefensible. There is also a distinction most published answers skip: a tithi governs the ritual act, not the commodity market. Paying for gold as a plain commercial transaction on an Amavasya carries no classical prohibition. Finally, a day marked Amavasya on a calendar is rarely Amavasya for the whole of it. The tithi ends at a specific clock time and Chaturdashi or Pratipada holds the rest of the day, so if you have to buy on that date, check which tithi is actually running at the hour you plan to pay.
- Which hours on Dhanteras are the gold buying muhurat?
- The buying runs across the whole day and it is a choghadiya question. The good slots are Labh, Amrit and Shubh, and Rahu kaal has to be kept clear because on some weekdays it lands exactly on one of them. This page prints those daylight hours for the strongest days it lists. Pradosh kaal, the stretch of roughly two and a quarter hours after sunset, is when the Dhanvantari and Lakshmi puja is performed. It is not the purchase window. Published festival copy runs the two together constantly, which is how families end up queuing at a shop after dark for a muhurta that was never about shopping. Dhanteras 2026 falls on Kartika Krishna Trayodashi. Trayodashi is a favourable tithi for acquisition, which is part of why the day carries what it carries.
- Why does Pushya nakshatra matter so much for gold?
- Pushya is the nakshatra of nourishment and increase, and its lord is Jupiter, the graha that carries gold among the metals. Classical muhurta calls it the best nakshatra for acquisition of every kind, with one famous exception: it is expressly rejected for marriage. When Pushya falls on a Thursday the nakshatra lord and the day lord are the same planet, and the combination is named Guru Pushya yoga. When it falls on a Sunday it is Ravi Pushya yoga. Both appear in the standard vara and nakshatra combination tables, and both score higher here than either limb would on its own. A Pushya day is worth waiting a week for if the purchase can wait.
- Is Akshaya Tritiya the only good day to buy gold?
- No. Akshaya Tritiya is the most celebrated one because akshaya means that which does not diminish, and Vaishakha Shukla Tritiya is treated as a day whose acts do not lose their fruit. Dhanteras carries the same weight in most of India. But both are single dates in a year, and neither is the rule. The rule is the combination of tithi, nakshatra and weekday, and a good combination turns up several times in any sixty day stretch. That is what the list on this page is: every day in the next sixty scored on the same rules, with the strongest eight shown, so you are not forced to wait for a festival or to buy on a day that happens to be inconvenient.