Muhurta Chintamani

Daivagye She Rare, the author of the book Muhurta Chintamani hails from a family of astrologers and is 7th in the line of his predecessors and his book is getting acclaim till this date for his excellent work. This useful book combines time-tested hints on omens with features of electional astrology and was written in the holy city of Kashi in shaka era of 1522, Vikram era of 1657, Christian era of 1600. Of Muhurta branch of Triskand Jyotish this fruit and flower gives fragrance and flavor till this date. The greater details are given in the last chapter of the book.

Shri Shiv Kumar Chadha, the translator and commentator of the current book is author of the book 'Significators In Astrology published in 1995 and he later wrote a

commentary on Meena's Nadi in 1998. The readers who have any question on the current book can direct their queries to the author on manoramaoccultmh@gmail.com

Of all the branches of Jyotish Muhurta Jyotish (Electional Astrology) is the most important. This is so, because no untoward or favourable event in life can be postponed or averted but by electing time for the same evilness can be minimized.

Muhurta Chintamani fascinated me since long time back when I was doing compiling cook from Jyotish classics to prepare notes for my studies. I found the book very useful as it had picked the highly pertinent principles of electional and native astrology from classics written by Sages like Narad, Vashishta, Kashyap, Parashar and more.

Therefore when I was asked to translate it into English I accepted the offer gladly. The profession of astrology burdens the practitioner with huge responsibility and he should be very careful in giving judgement and advice to his client. And before assuming such responsibility he should have learnt this divine science from learned and knowledgeable Gurus. If indulges in inappropriate practices and cheats the clients he is bound to face severe consequences. Therefore it is necessary and imperative that an astrologer should be well versed in all the branches of astrology and more so in Muhurta branch as most of the clients use astrologers for fixing date of the marriage and Match-Making.

Virtually, no perfect muhurt in all respects and free from all defects can be found. Therefore, a muhurt with minimum of defects or one with a defect whose remedial measure is affordable and reachable should be selected.

I hope my translation of the book will find favour with the students and practitioners both.

**Contents and Sample Pages**