📚 Vidyarambha (First Learning) Muhurat · विद्यारंभ

Vidyarambha (or akshararambha) — the child's ceremonial first writing — is classically timed to a Moon in a learning-friendly nakshatra (Ashwini, Punarvasu, Pushya, Hasta, Chitra, Swati, Anuradha, Mula, Shravana, Revati and peers) on the days of Mercury, Jupiter, Venus or the Sun.

Vasant Panchami is the season's famous mass-vidyarambha day, and in Kerala the Vijayadashami vidyarambham fills temples — but the tradition never required waiting: any qualifying date serves. The child traces the first letters (often 'ॐ' or 'हरि श्री') in rice with a grandparent's hand guiding.

Each day is screened on the three classical panchang limbs: the Moon's nakshatra must be on the vidyarambha (first learning) list below, the vara (weekday) must be favourable for the activity, and the tithi must be clear — not rikta (4th, 9th, 14th of either paksha) and not amavasya. Dates clearing all three are shubh; two of three, acceptable.