Know when your puja falls, how it is done, and what you need.
Free, and computed for your own city — never copied from last year's calendar. Each puja page gives the vidhi in order and the samagri it needs.
The three faces of a puja
When it falls
The tithi and nakshatra calculated from sunrise to sunrise for your specific city, with the moment each one turns — and, where the engine holds rules for the ceremony, the windows worth keeping it in.
How it is done
The vidhi as numbered steps, not remembered prose, with the mantra where there is one.
What it takes
The samagri each puja calls for, split into what a ready-made kit covers and what a household usually keeps at home, so you order only the difference.
Why not just use a wall calendar?
Three practical challenges every household faces, and how Pūjāvāni solves each one.
The date moves with your city
Printed calendars assume one city. A traditional day runs sunrise to sunrise, so the same tithi falls on different days in Chennai and in London.
The procedure is half-remembered
A call to an elder or a random video clip leaves you unsure of the sequence or the mantras for your family's tradition.
The shopping list is guesswork
A list copied from a video or an elder's memory leaves you unsure what a puja needs, or how much of it.
One puja. Three answers. One place.
Auspicious timing worked out from where the sun and moon actually are at your location, the procedure in order, and the samagri it needs.
1. Sacred Timing (काल)
Exact city coordinates · Sunrise to sunrise calculation
2. The Vidhi (विधि)
Chronological steps · Devanagari mantras & sankalpam
3. The Samagri (सामग्री)
A list for each puja · Kit and household items kept apart
Today’s reading(प्रत्यक्ष काल स्थिति)
One occasion, three answers
The whole surface, question by question
Pujavani holds a puja's moment, its procedure and its list in one place. This is what runs today, grouped by the question it answers — and what an account adds where a screen gives you half.
When does it fall?
The panchangam, computed from where the sun and the moon actually were at the place you give it. Change the place and the answer changes.
- LivePanchangam
Read the five limbs for a place you give it — tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana, each with the moment it ends rather than the day it loosely occupies, and the weekday they fall on.
An account adds the same day's Rahu Kala, Yama Ganda, Gulika and Abhijit, the Chogadiya and Hora sequence, the puja muhurthams, and an ICS or PDF you can keep.
- LiveMuhurtham
Give the panchangam a day and a ceremony it holds constraints for, and get that day's best-scoring windows, ranked.
An account widens the search from a day to a range and returns every window in it rather than the best of them, with the limbs that qualified each and the Chogadiya around it.
- LiveGruhapravesham
Say whether the house is new, lived in, or being re-entered after work, and get the day's windows scored against the rule for that kind of entry — Apurva to the northern transit, Dvandhava to a Vastu Shanti first.
An account adds the reasoning under each window — which limbs qualified it, and which nearly did not — and the whole range rather than one day.
- LiveFestivals
Look up a festival and read the dharma shastra rule that places it, then follow it to the puja it calls for. The directory holds the rule; which day it falls on where you live is the panchangam's answer, in the first line of this lane.
- LiveGrahanam
Find the next solar and lunar eclipse from a date you choose, and what kind each one is.
An account adds the half that depends on where you are standing: whether it is visible at all, the contact times, the obscuration, and the sutaka window — the hours an eclipse is kept apart from cooking, puja and temple entry.
How is it performed?
The vidhi — ordered steps rather than remembered prose, with the mantra where a step has one.
- Live in partPujas
Read a puja step by step, with the Sanskrit mantra where a step calls for one and its meaning in English beside it.
Every vidhi here is a draft, written in-house — no practising purohit has read one yet. Treat it as a working sequence, not an authority.
- LiveSankalpam
Have a sankalpam written out in Devanagari, with your own place and the running moment declined into it rather than left as blanks to fill.
- LiveHymns
Read a hymn in Telugu and Devanagari with its meaning in English beside it, not a transliteration on its own.
What does it take?
The samagri, kept with the puja it belongs to — what a ready-made kit covers and what a household keeps ready.
- Live in partPujas
Read what a puja needs as two lists — what a ready-made kit covers and what a household usually keeps at home — with the quantity where the source gave one.
It comes from the same draft corpus as the procedure beside it.
- Live in partRites
See who is qualified to perform a rite an officiant performs, what languages each recites and explains in, how each is verified, and how each takes a fee.
An account and an organization add the request itself: a date or a muhurtham window from the almanac, your place and a number to reach you on, sent to our desk, which answers with an officiant and a time. The fee is settled with the officiant; Pujavani takes no payment for the rite.
Knowing what a puja needs is here. What comes next is set out below.
About a person
Jatakam — a sibling of the three questions, not one of them. What the sky held at a birth moment, and what the shastra reads into it.
- Live in partCharts
Cast a birth chart for a moment and a place, and read the lagna, the rasi of the sun and moon, your janma nakshatra, and every graha by the sign it stands in.
Reading it closely is the account's half: exact degrees, the nakshatra pada and its lord, the Vimshottari periods, the divisional charts, Ashtakavarga and the six-fold strength — and keeping the chart.
- LiveMatchmaking
Score two birth charts on the Ashta Kuta, and read the total with the band it falls in.
An account opens the eight kutas one at a time — Varna through Nadi — with what each measures and what it scored, the Manglik overlay for both charts, and the classical exceptions that cancel a low total.
- LiveHindu birthday
Find which tithi your birthday falls on this year, and how many years it completes — the date a household keeps, which is rarely the Gregorian one.
An account adds the nakshatra birthday beside the tithi one, the hundred-year timeline of both, your full birth profile down to the pada and its lord, and the sankalpam for the day.
About a place
Vastu, and the wider IKS place study — the same relationship to a building that jatakam has to a person.
- Live in partVastu
Read the reference an audit is run against — the sixteen MahaVastu zones, the thirty-two entrance padas, and the classical dosha catalogue, each defect with where it occurs, how severe it is, and its remedy.
An account runs it against your own floor plan: the Brahmasthan clearance at the centre, the fit of each room to its zone, the Ayadi proportions of the plot, and a compliance score over the whole of it.
- Live in partPlaces
Read the IKS place corpus — the typologies a site can be built for, the treatises each rule is drawn from, and every rule graded by how strongly it is evidenced, from primary text down to disputed.
An account runs the study on your own site: the shape of the plot, the Bhumi Pariksha soil examination, the trees and the water on it, and a composite reading over all of them.
- Live in partMoving in
Take a new home from its plan to the griha praveśa: search for the moment, then read what the rite takes, split into what a kit covers and what a household keeps.
An account and an organization add the other two steps — attaching a saved plan, and sending the request for an officiant to perform the Gruhapravesham.
- Live in partDevelopers
Check software against the Vaasthu engine: read the public benchmark plans, each with the output the engine is pinned to produce, and the API's changelog.
An account with the Vaasthu plan adds calling the engine with a key from your own software, and reading every unit type of a development with one method.
What Pūjāvāni does today
What you can use now, what an account carries further, and where we want to take it next.
Open to anyone
Free, and no sign-in needed:
- Today's tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana, with the moment each one turns
- Festivals of the year, and the dharma shastra rule that places each one
- Auspicious windows for a ceremony — the best three in the range you pick
- Gruhapravesham timing: Nava against Jeerna, and the Sthira Lagna
- A sankalpam in Devanagari for your own place and moment
- The next solar and lunar eclipse
- Birth chart, match and Hindu-birthday readings
- Every puja's vidhi in order, and the samagri it needs
- Vastu tables — the sixteen zones and the thirty-two entrance padas
- Devotional hymns in Telugu and Devanagari, with English meaning
With an account
Free to create. It carries the same screens further, and keeps what you compute:
- Divisional charts, Vimshottari periods, Ashtakavarga
- An eclipse where you are: visibility, contact times, the sutaka window
- Vastu and IKS audits of your own plan
- Why a window scored as it did, and every window in the range
- Charts you keep, so the computation runs once
- Saved Vaasthu plans, each with a printable report for the household or a committee, and a link to share the reading
Everything an account keeps sits under an organization — your household or your practice — and creating one takes only a name.
Next
Not builtEach described by what it will do:
- Samagri that names the farm or workshop it came from, sourced through Ojas Agriculture
- Recitation guides that teach the svara of a mantra, beyond the browser's read-aloud
- Jātaka documents you can print and share, as a saved Vaasthu plan's report already can be
None of the three has a date, so none is promised.
Pūjāvāni answers when you ask it, across the calendar systems it computes rather than every regional variant in use. It sends no reminders — come back on the morning you need it.
Five questions the tradition asks of a place
Svabhāva (its character), Prayojana (its purpose), Maryādā (its limits), Pālana (its care) and Yajña (what it gives back) — each set beside a line of a text, and applied to a home, a stay, a farm, a rite and a school.
3. Boundaries & Limits
sapta maryādāḥ kavayas tatakṣuḥ“The sages fashioned seven limits.”
Read here: a limit is something made on purpose and kept on purpose — not a restriction imposed from outside.
What belongs here, what would undo its purpose, and which limits protect it?
Without limits a home becomes an office that never closes and a field becomes a sink for whatever is cheapest to put on it. This question asks for the limits a place keeps — in time, in space and in what it will take in — to be decided as deliberately as its rooms.
“Do not cut trees on this property.”
“Keep the trees, because the place depends on the shade they give and the birds they shelter.”
Keep the rite's own rules: the time the almanac gives, avoiding the periods the tradition avoids (such as Rāhu kālam), and the materials the vidhi lists.
The IKS living ecosystem: time, space, food and care
Pūjāvāni carries the first pillar, time: an almanac computed for your own city, and the rites that depend on it. IKS Homes, Ojas Agriculture and Ojas Care carry space, food and care, and are meant to read the same computation.
1. Time
An almanac computed for the reader's own city, and the rites that depend on it: when a rite falls, how it is done, and what it needs.
vedā hi yajñārtham abhipravṛttāḥ kālānupūrvā vihitāś ca yajñāḥ“The Vedas came forth for the rites, and the rites are ordained in the order of time — so whoever knows jyotiṣa, the reckoning of time, knows the rites.”
- Today's tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana for your own city, with the moment each one turns
- Auspicious windows for a ceremony in the range you choose
- Puja procedures in order, with the samagri each one needs
- The Vaasthu reference — zones, entrance padas, the named cubits and the classical grids — open to anyone
The almanac and the Vaasthu engine sit on the platform every venture shares, so the others can read the same computation rather than keep their own.
Start with what you need today
Pick your ceremony or your city. No account, no sign-up required.
Find your puja
Each puja's vidhi in order, with Devanagari mantras, and the samagri it needs.
Today’s panchangam
Tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana for your city, and the moment each one turns.
Find a muhurtham
Windows for Gruhapravesham, weddings and family ceremonies, scored against the rules the almanac holds for each.