How to Attract Money on Dhanteras 2025? Prosperity Tips

Dhanteras, or Dhanatrayodashi, opens the five-day Diwali cycle. It falls on the Trayodashi tithi of Krishna Paksha in the month of Ashwin and is traditionally dedicated to Goddess Lakshmi, Lord Kubera and Lord Dhanvantari. The name joins dhan (wealth) with teras (the thirteenth lunar day).

In Hindu practice the day is kept for cleaning the home, lighting lamps, purchasing metal or utensils, and performing evening worship during Pradosh Kaal. The rites are framed as an invitation of prosperity and well-being at the start of the festival fortnight, not as a guarantee of any particular result.

For 2025 the civil date is 18 October. The sections below set out the tithi window, the evening muhurat commonly used for Lakshmi–Kubera puja, the main legends, and the home observances that tradition prescribes.

When is Dhanteras 2025?

In 2025 Dhanteras is observed on 18 October. The Trayodashi tithi begins on 18 October at about 12:18 pm IST and ends on 19 October at about 1:51 pm IST in many Indian panchangs. The civil “Dhanteras day” therefore covers the afternoon and evening of the 18th, with a short carry-over into the early hours of the 19th under the same tithi.

The main household puja is kept in the evening on the 18th, during Pradosh Kaal. Exact local sunrise, sunset and tithi boundaries shift slightly by city, so devotees usually confirm the day’s panchang for their own place on the free daily panchang before fixing the lamp-lighting and puja hour. Festival dates across the year are also listed on the festival calendar.

Spiritual significance and the main legends

Three strands of story and practice meet on Dhanteras: health through Lord Dhanvantari, household protection through the tale of King Hima’s son, and wealth through Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Kubera.

Lord Dhanvantari. During the Samudra Manthan, the churning of the ocean by the devas and asuras, Dhanvantari is said to have risen holding a pot of amrit. The day is therefore also remembered as Dhanvantari Jayanti. Families light lamps and offer simple worship for well-being, treating sound health as the ground on which material life rests.

King Hima’s son. A well-known folk legend tells of a prince fated to die of snakebite on the fourth night after his wedding. His wife kept him awake amid heaps of gold and the light of many diyas; the serpent was distracted, and the prince lived. The custom of buying gold, silver or new utensils and of keeping the house brightly lit is often traced to this story.

Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Kubera. Dhanteras is kept as a day to welcome Lakshmi into a clean, well-lit home and to honour Kubera as the guardian of treasures. Account books, lockers and the place of business are opened and worshipped so that the year’s financial work begins under that remembrance.

Auspicious muhurat on Dhanteras 2025

Most household almanacs place the principal Lakshmi–Kubera worship in the evening of 18 October 2025, inside Pradosh Kaal. The windows commonly cited in Indian panchangs for that date are:

These figures are indicative for a standard Indian meridian; local sunset and the running tithi should be checked on the day. Where a family needs a named auspicious window for a purchase or a small rite, the muhurat finder can be used alongside the panchang.

Rituals families perform on Dhanteras

The sequence below is the one most North- and South-Indian households still follow. It is a description of custom, not a promise of outcome.

Clean and light the house. The day begins with a thorough cleaning. Entrances are marked with rangoli; diyas or lamps are set at the doorway so that the threshold is bright after sunset. Tradition holds that a dark entrance on this evening is inauspicious.

Dhanvantari remembrance. Because the tithi is also Dhanvantari Jayanti, many families offer tulsi, a ghee lamp and a simple namaskara to Dhanvantari before the wealth puja, linking health with the day’s other observances.

Lakshmi–Kubera puja in Pradosh Kaal. After sunset the altar is set with images or coins of Lakshmi and Kubera, fresh flowers, rice, sweets and ghee lamps. The Mahalakshmi mantra Om Shreem Mahalakshmyai Namah is recited, often 108 times. Some households also keep the Kubera Gayatri. New account books or business ledgers are placed before the deities for a brief blessing.

Thirteen lamps. A widespread custom is to light thirteen diyas in the evening—at the entrance, near the tulsi plant and around the shrine—remembering the Trayodashi itself and the dispelling of darkness.

Purchases of metal. Gold, silver, coins bearing Lakshmi or Ganesha, or new steel and copper utensils are bought on this day. Even a small silver coin placed in the locker is treated as a token of the year’s intent. Sharp tools and black-coloured items are generally avoided as purchases on Dhanteras.

Families who wish the same deities honoured through a full fire offering often turn to a Dhana Lakshmi Homa or the Mahalakshmi Ashtakam Homa, both performed by the ashram priests and telecast live. Broader wealth-related rites are grouped under the finance and wealth homa catalogue.

Do’s, don’ts and simple household tips

Do’s kept by tradition

• Keep the house and the main entrance lit through the evening and night.
• Open the locker, cash box or account books during the puja so that they are included in the remembrance.
• Offer charity—grain, ghee, clothes or a lamp—on the day; the Garuda Purana and related texts treat dana on Trayodashi as purifying of wealth.
• Place a small silver Lakshmi coin, gomati chakra or cowrie in the cash box if that is the family custom.

Don’ts commonly observed

• Avoid borrowing or lending money on Dhanteras.
• Do not leave the house in darkness after sunset.
• Avoid buying sharp objects or items that are plain black.

Preparation for the puja. Keep panchamrit (milk, curd, ghee, honey and sugar), lotus or fresh flowers, incense and betel leaves ready. A short period of quiet before the lamps are lit helps the household set a clear intention for the year without turning the rite into a bargain with the deity.

How the ashram marks the day

AstroBhava is an online-only Vedic ritual service. Named priests perform the rites at the house’s Yagna Ashram near Coimbatore and at seven temples in Tamil Nadu and Kerala; each service is telecast live to devotees. There are no branches and no walk-in centres.

On Dhanteras the ashram’s wealth-related offerings centre on Lakshmi and related shakta and vaishnava forms—through the Dhana Lakshmi and Mahalakshmi Ashtakam homas already noted, and through the wider set of rites listed under finance and wealth. Devotees who want guidance on which observance fits a chart may use the free ritual guide or a live astrology consultation; the house describes what tradition prescribes and what the priests perform, without claiming any fixed worldly result.

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