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MS · Muhurat for an activity

MS-15: The karana is not one the activity forbids

Weddings, business starts, child ceremonies and travel skip certain karanas (half lunar days), such as Vishti, also called bhadra.

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POST/v1/muhurta/{activity}Muhurta: good times to start an activity

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The call for our sample, New York, Nov 2, 2026 to Jan 31, 2027.

POST /v1/muhurta/vehicle

# New York, Nov 2, 2026 to Jan 31, 2027
curl -X POST "https://apiforastrology.com/api/astrology/v1/muhurta/vehicle" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASTROLOGY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"from":"2026-11-02","to":"2027-01-31","latitude":40.7128,"longitude":-74.006,"timezone":"America/New_York"}'
Answer (long lists shortened)200 OK
{
  "activity": {
    "slug": "vehicle",
    "name": "Buying a vehicle (car, bike)"
  },
  "place": {
    "latitude": 40.7128,
    "longitude": -74.006,
    "timezone": -5,
    "timezone_info": {
      "source": "zone",
      "offset_hours": -5,
      "zone": "America/New_York",
      "abbreviation": "EST",
      "dst": false,
      "dst_hours": 0,
      "ambiguous_resolved_by_fold": null,
      "note": "read from the IANA tz database at this instant, so daylight saving and historical offset changes are included"
    }
  },
  "from": "2026-11-02",
  "to": "2027-01-31",
  "windows": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-06",
      "weekday": "Friday",
      "starts": "2026-11-06T06:32:19-05:00",
      "ends": "2026-11-07T00:18:24-05:00",
      "minutes": 1066,
      "nakshatras": [
        "Hast",
        "Chitra"
      ],
      "tithis": [
        "Trayodashi"
      ],
      "rules": [
        {
          "id": "MS-01",
          "status": "pass",
          "rule": "the nakshatra is one the activity allows",
          "seen": [
            "Hast",
            "Chitra"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "MS-02",
          "status": "pass",
          "rule": "the tithi is one the activity allows",
          "seen": [
            "Trayodashi (krishna)"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "MS-03",
          "status": "pass",
          "rule": "the weekday (sunrise to sunrise) is one the activity allows",
          "seen": [
            "Friday"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "within_it": {
        "rahu_kaal": {
          "starts": "2026-11-06T10:22:38-05:00",
          "ends": "2026-11-06T11:39:24-05:00"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-15",
      "weekday": "Sunday",
      "starts": "2026-11-15T12:59:06-05:00",
      "ends": "2026-11-15T15:31:40-05:00",
      "minutes": 153,
      "nakshatras": [
        "Shravan"
      ],
      "tithis": [
        "Shashthi"
      ],
      "rules": [
        {
          "id": "MS-01",
          "status": "pass",
          "rule": "the nakshatra is one the activity allows",
          "seen": [
            "Shravan"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "MS-02",
          "status": "pass",
          "rule": "the tithi is one the activity allows",
          "seen": [
            "Shashthi (shukla)"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "MS-03",
          "status": "pass",
          "rule": "the weekday (sunrise to sunrise) is one the activity allows",
          "seen": [
            "Sunday"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "within_it": {
        "rahu_kaal": {
          "starts": "2026-11-15T15:23:34-05:00",
          "ends": "2026-11-15T16:37:56-05:00"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-16",
      "weekday": "Monday",
      "starts": "2026-11-16T17:50:08-05:00",
      "ends": "2026-11-17T06:45:16-05:00",
      "minutes": 775,
      "nakshatras": [
        "Dhanishtha"
      ],
      "tithis": [
        "Ashtami"
      ],
      "rules": [
        {
          "id": "MS-01",
          "status": "pass",
          "rule": "the nakshatra is one the activity allows",
          "seen": [
            "Dhanishtha"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "MS-02",
          "status": "pass",
          "rule": "the tithi is one the activity allows",
          "seen": [
            "Ashtami (shukla)"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "MS-03",
          "status": "pass",
          "rule": "the weekday (sunrise to sunrise) is one the activity allows",
          "seen": [
            "Monday"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "within_it": {
        "bhadra": [
          {
            "starts": "2026-11-16T17:50:08-05:00",
            "ends": "2026-11-17T06:47:49-05:00"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "count": 25,
  "personal": false,
  "see_also": null,
  "about": {
    "text": [
      "These are good times to buy a car, a bike or any vehicle. Each time is chosen from the Hindu calendar. They look at the nakshatra (the star the Moon is in), the tithi (the lunar day) and the weekday.",
      "The rules come from a published calendar and were checked against it, window by window. Pick any window that fits your plans."
    ],
    "gaps": [],
    "language": "en",
    "detail": "standard"
  },
  "age": null,
  "age_window": null,
  "special_days": null,
  "postponed_to": null,
  "not_applied": {
    "rahu_kaal": "published windows run straight through rahu kaal; it is returned beside each window, not cut out",
    "bhadra": "163 hours of Vishti karana fall inside the published 2026 windows, including bhadra with the Moon in Karka, Kumbha and Meena -- so neither bhadra nor \"bhadra on earth\" is an exclusion here",
    "panchaka": "Dhanishtha, Shatabhisha and Revati appear in the published windows",
    "yoga": "every one of the 27 yogas, Vyatipata and Vaidhriti included, appears inside a published window",
    "lagna": "the page names chara and dvisvabhava lagnas as good, but windows run for up to a day across every lagna; it is reported per window, not used to cut"
  },
  "not_computed": {
    "varjyam": "read from a 27-row table of ghati offsets per nakshatra; not reproduced until the table is verified against a source",
    "amrit_kaal": "same table family as varjyam; same reason",
    "godhuli": "sources give different spans around sunset"
  },
  "provenance": {
    "source": "A widely used published calendar, vehicle purchase muhurat, New Delhi (geoname 1261481), fetched 2026-09-16",
    "derived_from": 2026,
    "checked_on": 2027,
    "agreement": {
      "2026": "every one of the 88 published windows reproduced within 3 minutes at both ends; 96% of the hours returned are published hours",
      "2027": "all 112 published windows reproduced within 3 minutes at both ends; 98.8% of the hours returned are published hours. Two of them needed MS-11, found afterwards on the property calendar"
    }
  },
  "not_claimed": [
    "no window is ranked above another and none is scored. Every returned window passes every rule of the activity",
    "the rules are the published calendar's, measured against it window by window, not a single tradition's final word; a family astrologer may weigh further factors, and the payload names what is not applied so that is visible"
  ]
}

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Section
MS · Muhurat for an activity
Kind
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Feature
Panchang and muhurat

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