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Telecast Live Vintage devotional illustration of two-armed Goddess Dhumavati riding a chariot drawn by two black crows
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Dumavati Homa

Also spelled Dumavati Homam

धूमावती होम

Smoke rises before flame. In the Dumavati Homa, the Devi of the veil is asked to thin what has been standing between you and your progress.

  • Performed for you alone — never a group ceremony
  • Muhurta fixed from your own birth chart, confirmed within 24–48 working hours
  • Free energised Dhumavati Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
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The Ritual and Its Weight

The Dumavati Homa is a fire rite offered to Dumavati Devi, the seventh of the ten Mahavidyas, worshipped as the goddess of smoke, dissolution and the moment just before something clears. Tradition turns to her when the difficulty has no name — when applications go unanswered, sanctions stay pending, a marriage talk keeps collapsing at the last step, or a venture that should have moved simply does not move. The homa does not fight the obstacle. It offers the obstruction itself into the fire.

Because she is invoked for what is hidden rather than what is visible, the Dumavati Homam has always been treated as a rite of exact procedure. The kunda is prepared with care, the sequence is unhurried, and the offerings follow the older tantric order. At our Yagna Ashram, priests perform it in your name and with your gotra and nakshatra, while you watch the fire from wherever you are. Nothing about the rite asks you to travel; it asks only your sankalpa.

धूं धूं धूमावती ठः ठः (Dhūṃ Dhūṃ Dhūmāvatī Ṭhaḥ Ṭhaḥ) With the seed sound of smoke, this mantra calls Dumavati Devi to be present and to dissolve whatever stands in the way, sealing the request with the closing syllables Thah Thah.

Why Devotees Book This

Devotees come to the Dumavati Homa when the block is real but unnamed. These are the intentions the tradition assigns to the rite.

Long-standing delays

Offered when work that should have concluded months ago is still waiting on someone else's signature or silence.

Repeated last-minute collapse

For matters that advance well and then fail at the final step, again and again, without visible cause.

Hidden opposition

Traditionally invoked where ill-will, gossip or quiet sabotage is felt around one's work or household.

Stalled ventures and paperwork

Sought for court matters, licences, property files, visas and negotiations that have gone still.

Clearing accumulated negativity

Dumavati is the Devi of dissolution; the rite is offered to burn away stagnation clinging to a place or a period of life.

Steadiness of mind while waiting

Devotees ask for clarity and composure so they can act rightly rather than anxiously while a situation unlocks.

Brahmashree Shivaaya, Chief Operating Officer & Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava
Brahmashree ShivaayaChief Operating Officer & Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions
Who performs your homa

Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya

Every priest who performs your Dumavati Homa is trained in a traditional Padashala and personally recruited by Brahmashree Shivaaya — Chief Operating Officer & Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava. Your ritual is conducted at our own Yagna Ashram — never a rented venue — with Yantra Pujas inside our consecrated sanctum.

Meet our priests →
  • Certified Vedic priests — trained in traditional Padashalas
  • 100% Agama Vidhi — as prescribed in the scriptures
  • Individual, never group — one ritual, one devotee's sankalpa
  • Muhurta from your chart — date fixed to your birth details
  • Free worldwide delivery — prasadam & energised Dhumavati Yantra
Book your Dumavati Homa

Choose your homa in two steps

Step 1 How many priests will perform your homa?
Step 2 Enhance with the 48-Day Anushthan? (optional)

* Your Dhumavati Yantra is a copper plate approx. 1–2 inches, rolled and sealed inside a silver amulet approx. 2–4 inches. Sizes are approximate and the amulet's design varies between supplier batches — shape, metal and consecration remain the same.

Your packageTrayi Dumavati Homa3 Priests + Free Yantra

All prices are all-inclusive — no shipping charges, no additions at checkout. See everything included →

1

You book — and add birth details on the next page, straight after payment.

2

Within 24–48 working hours — your muhurta is confirmed by email.

3

The day before — your telecast link arrives by email.

4

After the homa — tracking email with how and when to wear the Dhumavati Yantra.

Sacred timing

The most auspicious days for a Dumavati Homa

Dumavati is a night-facing Devi, and her homa follows her own calendar.

Dhumavati Jayanti

The Ashtami of the bright fortnight of Jyeshtha is held as the Devi's appearance day, the most sought date for this homa.

Ashtami and Chaturdashi tithis

Especially in Krishna paksha, these tithis are traditionally reserved for Mahavidya upasana and are favoured for the Dumavati Homam.

Saturdays

Saturday, linked to slowness and to the loosening of long-held karmic knots, is a customary weekday for the rite.

Amavasya and Navaratri nights

The dark-moon day and the nine nights of the Devi are taken up when the obstruction has persisted over years.

You do not need to wait for one of these days. Whenever you book, our astrologers calculate the muhurta from your own birth chart — a date chosen for you personally, which tradition regards as more precise than a calendar date chosen for everyone. If you would like the homa on one of the days above, tell us at checkout and we will fix the muhurta within it.

Every package, and the 48-day option

What you receive

The sealing of the Dhumavati Yantra

When your homa concludes, the yantra that stood in the fire is rolled and locked inside its silver amulet according to Agama vidhi — the practice by which the energies raised in a ritual are held within a consecrated object rather than dispersing. It is why a homa performed at our ashram can still reach a devotee ten thousand miles away: what the fire raised travels to you, sealed.

Personal sankalpa

Your name, gotra & nakshatra — for you and up to five family members.

Live telecast

Watch your own homa in real time from the ashram. Streamed openly on our YouTube channel by default — or request an unlisted telecast at checkout.

Free energised Dhumavati Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet

Consecrated over three days — Jala (holy-water consecration with mantras), Prana (life force through pranayama & chants) and Jeeva Pratishta (awakened with 108 recitations & offerings) — then present through your homa, receiving the energies raised in the fire. Immediately afterwards it is rolled and sealed inside a silver amulet by Agamic rite, locking those energies within, and shipped to you with your prasadam.

Prasadam, shipped free

Sacred vibhuti, sandalwood powder & kumkum from your fire — delivered to any country.

Yantra Pujas inside our consecrated sanctum

48-Day Anushthan (optional) — daily pujas for 48 days — the 27 Nakshatras + 12 Rashis + 9 Planets — then sealed in a silver amulet of approximately 2–4 inches. Performed in our consecrated sanctum at the Yagna Ashram.

A note on sacred tradition

As per strict Agama vidhi, no videography is permitted inside the temple sanctum — this preserves the pure sacred energies and undisturbed divine focus of the ritual. The main homa is respectfully telecast live from outside the sanctum.

Homas are telecast openly on our YouTube channel so that devotees everywhere may witness the rituals — and because we believe you should be able to see our work before you trust us with yours. Your sankalpa names you and your family, so if you would rather your ceremony were not public, choose the private telecast option at checkout and it is streamed as an unlisted link, which does not appear on our channel or in search, though anyone who has the link can watch it and share it.

We state this plainly — transparency about what tradition forbids filming, and about what is public, is part of performing these rituals honestly.

After it arrives

How to wear your energised Dhumavati Yantra

The energised yantra is carefully rolled and sealed inside a sacred silver amulet before shipping. Wearing it is itself a small ritual.

01

Your auspicious time to wear it

Wear it for the first time on a Saturday, between 6.30 and 7.30 in the morning. Bathe first, place the yantra on your pooja altar and offer your prayers, then wear it around your neck or your waist, on a red or black thread or a silver chain.

02

At a funeral

Take the yantra off before you attend a funeral.

03

Purify the amulet

Whenever the yantra has been taken off, or if it was worn at a funeral, dip it in raw milk or Ganga jal, show it incense, dhoop or attar (perfume), and then wear it again.

04

Keep the energy intact

You may repeat this energising once a week or once a month.

Inside the fire ritual

How your Dumavati Homa is performed

01

Sankalpa

The priest states your name, gotra and nakshatra — and those of up to five family members — with the intention this homa is performed for.

02

Ganapati Puja

The customary invocation to Ganapati, clearing obstacles before the deity is approached.

03

Agni Pratishtha

The fire is consecrated in the homa kunda and Agni invoked as the carrier of every offering that follows.

04

Dumavati Avahana

The mula mantra of Dhumavati is chanted, inviting the deity's presence into the fire — by one, three or five priests as your package sets.

05

Ahuti

Ghee and akshata, with the flowers, grains and dravyas proper to this deity, are offered in sequence with mantra.

06

Purnahuti

The final complete offering seals the sankalpa stated at the opening.

07

Aarti & Dispatch

Aarti is performed live on your telecast. Vibhuti, sandalwood powder, kumkum and your energised Dhumavati Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.

Who is invoked

Dhumavati

Seventh among the ten Mahavidyas, she appears as an elder widow, thin and tall, her hair loose and white, riding a crow or a cart without horses. She wears no ornament and holds a winnowing basket — the tool that separates grain from chaff. Tantric texts place her where smoke stands before fire: in absence, in hunger, in the long pause when a thing has ended and the next has not begun. Devotees who approach her do not ask for increase. They approach her for what must be let go, for the hidden and the stalled, for the part of a life that has grown heavy and unnamed. Her worship is held to be strict in procedure, offered quietly, with the seed sounds Dhūṃ Dhūṃ and the closing Ṭhaḥ Ṭhaḥ.

In this homa that grace is invoked through fire, with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.

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Questions

Frequently asked

The Dumavati Homa is a Vedic-tantric fire ritual offered to Dumavati Devi, the smoke-hued goddess counted among the ten Mahavidyas. She presides over dissolution — the clearing away of what has outlived its time. The rite is therefore performed for obstruction removal: for delays, hurdles and stalled progress whose cause is not plainly visible. Offerings are made into the consecrated kunda with her mantra so that the blockage, rather than the person, is given to the fire.
Tradition prescribes the Dumavati Homam for relief from prolonged delays, for matters that keep failing at the final step, for hidden opposition and ill-will around one's work, and for clearing stagnation from a household or an undertaking. Devotees also offer it for steadiness of mind while a difficult situation resolves. Scripture describes these as the aims of the rite; the fruit of any homa rests with the Devi and with your own effort.
Anyone facing persistent obstruction may sponsor it — a professional whose file has been pending too long, a family whose property or court matter has not moved, a student or entrepreneur whose plans keep stalling. Because the Mahavidya upasana demands precise procedure, the rite itself should be performed by priests trained in it. At AstroBhava you are the sankalpa-karta: our priests perform the homa at our Yagna Ashram on your behalf, in your name, gotra and nakshatra.
Dhumavati Jayanti — Shukla Ashtami of Jyeshtha — is the foremost day. Ashtami and Chaturdashi of the dark fortnight, Saturdays, Amavasya and the Navaratri nights are also held auspicious. Our priests choose the muhurat after looking at your birth star and the tithi, so the rite falls on a window suited to your chart rather than a generic date.
The priests begin with achamana, Ganapati puja and punyahavachanam, then take your sankalpa with your name, gotra and nakshatra. Agni is invoked in the kunda and kindled with samit wood. Dumavati Devi is installed and honoured with shodashopachara puja, after which the priests offer the prescribed count of ahutis with her mantra — ghee, black sesame, homa dravya, herbs, dried fruits and traditional samagri appropriate to her upasana. Purnahuti, arati, prayers for shanti and the distribution of prasadam close the rite. You watch the whole sequence on live telecast.
Book online from any country on this page. Send your name, gotra if you know it, birth star and your specific sankalpa. We confirm the muhurat, share your live-telecast link so you can watch the fire wherever you are, and courier the prasadam and an energised Dhumavati Yantra to your address anywhere in the world, free of shipping cost. You need not travel or attend in person.
Our silver amulets are specially made for everyday wear: copper is added to the silver to make them more durable. With regular use, the amulet may turn black, reddish or brown as it is exposed to heat and reacts with the chemicals in cosmetics. Wipe it regularly with a soft, dry cotton cloth, keep perfume and cosmetics away from it, and clean it by rubbing it gently with a pinch of vibhuti (sacred ash). Every six months, polish it with cotton dipped in a silver cleaner, but never soak or dip the amulet itself. Never open it, as the energies of the yantra are sealed inside. If it is ever damaged, send it back to us, not to a jeweller.
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