Beeja Vapana muhurat: shubh dates for sowing

Beeja Vapana, called simply bijai or the sowing muhurat in most villages, is the timing for putting the season's seed into the ground. The purpose of a shubh muhurat here is straightforward: to begin the crop on a day the panchang favours for growth, so the first furrow is not opened in a barred nakshatra or a Rikta tithi. Tarini gives you ranked dated, timed windows for बुवाई मुहूर्त inside the agronomic sowing period you name, worked out for your crop and your field and judged against your own birth chart, with the days and hours to avoid marked. It is priced so that it is worth checking every season rather than once in a lifetime.

About this muhurat

The sowing window for the season, by crop and by field. Priced so it is worth checking every season rather than once in a lifetime.

The sowing muhurat covers the moment the first seed is placed, usually preceded by a short puja to the plough, the bullocks or the tractor and a handful of grain offered at the field boundary. Farmers take it at the start of the kharif and rabi sowings, before a new orchard or plantation is laid out, and when a field is being sown for the first time after being brought under cultivation. The ceremonial first furrow is cut inside the window, and the rest of the field follows at the usual pace.

What you receive

• Ranked, dated and timed sowing windows within the period you choose
• Judged against the relevant birth chart, not a generic panchang
• Days and windows to avoid, marked clearly