Shastra Karma muhurat: shubh dates for a planned operation

Shastra Karma, known in ordinary speech as the surgery or operation muhurat, is the timing for a planned procedure where the hospital has given you a choice of dates. The purpose of a shubh muhurat here is to place the operation on a day the panchang and your chart both favour, rather than taking the first slot offered. Tarini gives you ranked dated, timed windows for शस्त्र कर्म मुहूर्त, judged against the patient's own birth chart and the sign the Moon occupies in relation to the part of the body being operated on, with the days and hours to avoid clearly marked. These windows are for you to weigh alongside your doctor, never in place of their advice.

About this muhurat

Where surgery is planned and the date is negotiable, the timing is worth weighing. You get the windows and the days to avoid — to discuss alongside your doctor, never instead of them.

Shastra Karma is the classical term for any procedure involving the knife, and the tradition of timing it goes back to the Ayurvedic texts, which pair the Moon's sign with the limb or organ concerned. Families consider it for elective surgery, a joint replacement, a caesarean where the obstetrician has offered dates, a cataract operation or a dental procedure. The muhurat is taken for the hour the procedure begins, and no muhurat is sought where the surgery is urgent or the date is fixed by the condition itself.

What you receive

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