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Telecast Live Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa for health and recovery: Goddess Indrakshi with her vajra beside Lord Mrityunjaya Shiva
Health · maha Homa · Live from our Yagna Ashram

Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa

Also spelled Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homam

इन्द्राक्षी शिव कवच होम

The armour of Shiva, chanted syllable by syllable into the fire — offered in your name for healing, stamina and long life.

  • Never a group ceremony — only the names you give are spoken
  • Muhurta fixed from your own birth chart, confirmed within 24–48 working hours
  • Free energised Indrakshi Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
From$737 2 packages · free energised Indrakshi Yantra · free worldwide delivery · all-inclusive
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The Ritual and Its Weight

The Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa joins two of the oldest healing utterances in the tradition. Indrakshi — the Devi with the eyes of Indra — is praised in the Indrakshi Stotram as the goddess who watches over the ailing body and steadies the breath of the weary. The Shiva Kavacha is a spoken armour: verse by verse it asks Shiva to guard the crown, the eyes, the throat, the heart, the limbs, the marrow, the very span of one's years. Bringing both to the fire is what makes this a Maha rite rather than a short prayer.

Families turn to the Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa when illness has lingered, when recovery is slow, when an elder needs strength, or before a long treatment or surgery. The tradition prescribes it for vitality and longevity — Shiva being Mrityunjaya, the one invoked for length of life. At our Yagna Ashram, priests kindle the fire in your name and your gotra, chant the kavacha in full, and offer each mantra with ghee and herbs. You watch it live from wherever you are; the prasadam and the energised Indrakshi Yantra reach you afterwards.

ॐ ऐं ह्रीं क्लीं इन्द्राक्ष्यै नमः Om Aim Hreem Kleem Indrakshyai Namah — with the seed-sounds of speech, power and grace, I bow to Devi Indrakshi and place myself under her watch.
Before you choose

What a Maha Homa is

Not every fire ritual is performed at the same scale. A Maha Homa is our largest form — more priests, a longer fire, and the complete chanting sequence the rite prescribes rather than an abridged one. This is what that means in practice.

Priests5 or 10Chanting in unison, never in rotation
The fire burnsApprox. 2 hoursFrom the sankalpa to the final aarti
ChantedIn fullThe complete sequence the rite calls for, not an excerpt
TelecastEvery minuteNothing is performed off camera

A Maha Homa is never a group ceremony, the same as any homa we conduct. What the scale changes is the weight of the offering — ten trained voices holding one hymn for two hours is a different undertaking from one voice for an hour, and it is reserved for the intentions that warrant it.

Why Devotees Book This

What the tradition prescribes the Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa for:

Support Through Illness

Offered when sickness has lingered longer than it should, as a prayer for the body to turn a corner.

Vitality and Stamina

The kavacha names each part of the body in turn, asking Shiva to hold it strong. Devotees book it when energy has thinned.

Longevity

Shiva is invoked here as the lord of long life. The rite is traditionally offered for elders and for those wishing a full span of years.

Relief From Chronic Complaints

For conditions that recur season after season, the homa is offered as steady, repeated prayer rather than a single appeal.

Before Treatment or Surgery

Families commonly request it in the days before a procedure, seeking a calm mind and a protected body.

An Armour Against Harm

The Shiva Kavacha is a protective verse. It is also chanted to shield the household from negative influence and unseen disturbance.

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 Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha 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.

Meet our priests →
  • Certified Vedic priests — trained in traditional Padashalas
  • 100% Agama Vidhi — as prescribed in the scriptures
  • One chart, one sankalpa, one fire — never a group ceremony
  • Muhurta from your chart — date fixed to your birth details
  • Free worldwide delivery — prasadam & energised Indrakshi Yantra
Book your Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa

Choose how many priests will chant

In every package
  • The complete Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa, with the same ritual stages and the same kinds of offerings
  • A private ceremony for you and up to four family members, never combined with anyone else’s booking
  • Live telecast from our Yagna Ashram, and prasadam shipped free
  • The energised Indrakshi Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet
What changes

Only the number of priests: 5 or 10. Every priest makes their own offerings, and all of them perform at the same time, in one ceremony.

3 complete recitations of the Indrakshi Stotra and the Shiva Kavacha by each priest — so 15 or 30 in all, by package.

Has your astrologer prescribed a different ritual count? Our priests can review it and arrange a customised homa. Call our Devotee Relationship Team on +91 96295 55442 — they confirm the count, the priests, the approximate duration and the total price before you book.

Your packageIndrakshi Shiva Kavacha Maha Homa5 Priests · approx. 2 hours · Free yantra
$737

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 Indrakshi Yantra.

Sacred timing

The most auspicious days for an Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa

Any day the fire is lit for you carries merit, yet these occasions are held especially fitting for the Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa:

Mondays

Somavara belongs to Shiva. The kavacha is most often offered on a Monday, particularly in the month of Shravana or Karthigai.

Pradosham

The twilight of the thirteenth tithi, when Shiva is worshipped for release from affliction — a favoured hour for this homa.

Ardra Nakshatra

Thiruvathirai, Shiva's own star. Devotees seeking strength and long life often choose this day for the rite.

Maha Shivaratri

The great night of Shiva, when the kavacha is chanted through the watches and the fire is kept alive.

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

What you receive

The Indrakshi Yantra sealed inside the sacred silver amulet
An actual amulet received by a devotee. Your Indrakshi 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.

The sealing of the Indrakshi Yantra

The Indrakshi Yantra is 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. When your homa concludes, it is rolled and locked inside its silver amulet according to Agama vidhi — the practice by which those energies 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.

This is what arrives at your door, at no extra cost, with your prasadam.

Personal sankalpa

Your name, gotra & nakshatra — and up to four family members if you wish. No one else is named.

Hear yours read back, as the priest will say it →

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 Indrakshi Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet

Shipped to you with your prasadam.

Prasadam, shipped free

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

After it arrives

How to wear your energised Indrakshi Yantra

01

Your auspicious time to wear it

Wear it for the first time on a Monday, 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 Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa is performed

Priests performing the Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa at AstroBhava's Yagna AshramThese seven steps, as they happenFrom a live telecast at our Yagna Ashram
01

Sankalpa

The priest states your name, gotra and nakshatra — and those of up to four 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

Indrakshi Avahana

The Indrakshi Stotra and the Shiva Kavacha is chanted, inviting the deity's presence into the fire — by five or ten priests as your scale 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 Indrakshi Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.

Who is invoked

Indrakshi and Mrityunjaya Shiva

Two protectors stand together in this fire. Indrakshi is the Devi whose eyes are the eyes of Indra — thousand-sighted, missing nothing that troubles the body. She is invoked in the Indrakshi Stotram, held in the tradition as a healing hymn, where she is described bearing weapons in her many hands and watching over the sick and the weary. Beside her stands Shiva in his Mrityunjaya aspect, the conqueror of death, ash-smeared, moon on his matted hair, the one whose name the Shiva Kavacha places verse by verse over crown, eyes, throat, heart and limbs like armour. Devotees turn to them when strength is thin, when convalescence drags, and when an elder needs steadying. She sees; he shields.

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 Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa is a fire ritual that brings two of the oldest healing utterances in the tradition to the sacred fire: the Indrakshi Stotra, praising the Devi with the eyes of Indra who watches over the ailing body, and the Shiva Kavacha, a spoken armour that asks Shiva to guard the body limb by limb and the span of one's years. Shiva is invoked here as Mrityunjaya, the lord of long life. Bringing both texts to the fire is what makes the Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homam a Maha rite rather than a short prayer. Our priests perform it at our Yagna Ashram, and you watch it live.
Families turn to the Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa as a prayer for recovery when illness has lingered, for vitality and stamina when energy has thinned, and for longevity. It is offered as steady prayer for chronic complaints that recur season after season, and in the days before a treatment or surgery, seeking a calm mind and a protected body. Because the Shiva Kavacha is a protective verse, it is also chanted to shield the household from unseen disturbance. The homa is offered alongside medical care, never in place of it: continue with your doctor's guidance, and receive the rite as prayer.
The Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa is commonly booked by someone recovering from illness, by a family member on behalf of an elder or a patient, by those with recurring health concerns, and by devotees of Shiva who keep it as an annual observance. You do not perform it yourself: qualified priests at our Yagna Ashram perform it on your behalf, with your name, nakshatra and gotra in the sankalpa, and you watch the live telecast wherever you are. It is one private ceremony for you and up to four members of your family, offered alongside medical care, never in place of it.
The priests begin with achamana, Ganapati puja and punyahavachana to purify the space. Your sankalpa is then declared with your name, gotra and nakshatra, and the recovery you are praying for. Kalasha sthapana and the invocation of Indrakshi follow, Agni is kindled in the kunda, and Shiva is invoked as Mrityunjaya. The Indrakshi Stotra and the Shiva Kavacha are then chanted in full, each mantra offered into the fire with ghee, samidha of palasha and bilva, black sesame, rice, honey and healing herbs, every priest making their own offerings in the one ceremony. The rite closes with purnahuti, the full oblation, followed by deeparadhana and prasadam. You watch it all on live telecast.
You can book the Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa with five or ten priests. Each package is the complete homa, with the same ritual stages and the same kinds of offerings, performed privately for you and up to four family members and never combined with another booking. What changes is the number of priests: every priest makes their own ahutis, the offerings into the fire, and all of them perform at the same time, in one ceremony. An ahuti count is a count of these offerings, not a japa count, which measures repetitions of a mantra. Each priest completes 3 complete recitations of the Indrakshi Stotra and the Shiva Kavacha: 15 in all with five priests and 30 with ten, in approximately 2 hours. A larger package adds priests and offerings, not a second ceremony. Choose the scale that fits your intention, preference and budget; the five-priest homa is complete in itself, and no package guarantees a particular result.
Yes. Our listed Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa packages specify standard ritual quantities and priest numbers. If your astrologer has prescribed a different count, we can arrange a customised homa following review by our priests. Please share your requirements with our Devotee Relationship Team on +91 96295 55442. The team will confirm the requested recitation or offering count, number of priests, approximate duration and total price before you book. Your customised homa remains a private ceremony dedicated to your sankalpa, never combined with other customers' bookings.
Approximately two hours, whichever package you choose: the priests perform together and make their offerings at the same time, so ten priests do not lengthen the ceremony. Your muhurta, the date and time, is confirmed by email within 24–48 working hours of booking, and the live telecast link arrives the day before, so you can follow every stage wherever you are.
You do not need to wait for an auspicious day. 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 prefer one of the days tradition favours for the Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa — a Monday (especially in the months of Shravana or Karthigai), the twilight of Pradosham, Ardra nakshatra, Shiva's own star, or Maha Shivaratri — tell us in the notes at checkout and we will fix the muhurta within it. Our Panchang shows the tithi and nakshatra for any date.
Yes. What directs a homa is its sankalpa: the solemn resolve the priest makes before the fire is kindled, stating who the homa is for and what it is offered for. The deity invoked and the ritual remain the same; the purpose is yours, as your astrologer has advised it. So if you have been advised the Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa for a reason other than those on this page, write that purpose in your own words in the “Your sankalpa” box on the birth-details page, straight after payment, and the priest will state it in the sankalpa with your name, gotra and nakshatra. If the advice also names a date, a number of recitations or a number of priests, mention it in the notes at checkout, or call our Devotee Relationship Team on +91 96295 55442 before you book.
Book the Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa online on this page, from India or from any other country; devotees living abroad book it the same way, and prices are shown in your currency. Choose five or ten priests, and straight after payment add your name, gotra if you know it and your birth star, with your prayer for the homa in the “Your sankalpa” box. Your muhurta is confirmed by email within 24–48 working hours and the live telecast link arrives the day before, so you can watch the entire homa live, wherever you are. Afterwards, prasadam and your energised Indrakshi Yantra are couriered to you anywhere in the world, free of shipping cost.
Every Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Homa package includes the energised Indrakshi Yantra: a copper plate of about 1–2 inches, consecrated over three days and present in the fire through your homa. It is then rolled and sealed inside a silver amulet of about 2–4 inches, made to be worn, and couriered to you with your prasadam, free of shipping cost, usually reaching you in 1–2 weeks within India and 2–4 weeks internationally from the homa’s completion; the tracking email gives your personal time to wear it.
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.

Your ritual date is an auspicious muhurta calculated personally for you — not a slot on a rota. Once it is confirmed, rescheduling from the customer's side is not available, and cancellation does not carry a refund. If we ever have to move your ritual for unforeseen reasons at the ashram, we will inform you immediately and provide a fresh auspicious date at no cost — and your telecast, recording, prasadam and yantra remain exactly as promised.

Read the full refund and cancellation policy.

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Indrakshi Shiva Kavacha Maha Homa5 Priests · approx. 2 hours · Free Yantra · live telecast · personal sankalpa
$737
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