Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Homa
Also spelled Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Homam
पूर्वभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र होमThe one-footed Aja Ekapada rises before dawn. Offered in fire for those born under Purva Bhadrapada, for protection, clarity and steady prosperity.
- 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 Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
The Ritual and Its Weight
Every soul enters the world under one of the twenty-seven nakshatras, and that star keeps its hand on your life. The Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Homa is the fire rite offered to the presiding power of your birth star — Aja Ekapada, the fierce and luminous form of Rudra who stands at the threshold between worlds. Purva Bhadrapada is a star of depth. It carries intensity, vision, and a mind that reaches past the ordinary. Fed well, that intensity becomes purpose; left unattended, it can turn restless.
This homa is how the tradition tends it. Priests kindle the fire, call the nakshatra devata by name, and offer ghee and prescribed dravyas through the mantras of the Nakshatra Sukta, joined with the counsel of Guru, the ruling graha of this star. It is taken up on your birth-star day, before a new undertaking, during a difficult planetary period, or simply once a year to keep your alignment with your star clean and steady. You do not have to travel to it. The purva bhadrapada nakshatra homa is performed on your behalf at our Yagna Ashram in Pollachi, Coimbatore District and streamed to you live.
अज एकपादुदगात् पुरस्तात् विश्वा भूतानि प्रतिमोदमानः । तस्य देवाः प्रसवं यन्ति सर्वे प्रोष्ठपदासो अमृतस्य गोपाः ॥ Aja Ekapada, the unborn one-footed lord, has risen in the east, gladdening all created beings; all the gods move at his impulse — the Proshthapada stars, the guardians of immortality.Why Devotees Book This
Devotees born under Purva Bhadrapada take up this homa to keep their birth star honoured and their path unobstructed. This is what the tradition prescribes it for.
Alignment with your birth star
The rite honours the devata who presides over your janma nakshatra, keeping your inner rhythm in step with the star you were born under.
Protection on your path
Aja Ekapada is invoked in the Vedas as a guardian at the threshold. The offerings are made seeking shelter from unseen obstruction and sudden reversals.
Steadiness for an intense mind
Purva Bhadrapada carries fire in thought. The homa is offered so that intensity settles into focus rather than restlessness.
Grace of Guru
Jupiter rules this nakshatra. Mantras to the Guru graha are woven in, sought for wisdom, right counsel and lawful growth.
Support in difficult dasha periods
Families traditionally offer this homa when a taxing planetary period is running, asking that its lessons be carried with strength.
Blessing for new beginnings
Before a marriage, a move, a new venture or a child's naming, the birth-star homa is offered to begin under a settled sky.
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra 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
- 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 Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Yantra
Choose your homa in two steps
- The complete Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra 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 Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet
Only the number of priests: 1, 3 or 5. Every priest makes their own offerings, and all of them perform at the same time, in one ceremony.
108 ahutis by each priest, with the mula mantra of Aja Ekapada — so 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.
Has your astrologer prescribed a different number of ahutis? 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 Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra 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.
All prices are all-inclusive — no shipping charges, no additions at checkout. See everything included →
You book — and add birth details on the next page, straight after payment.
Within 24–48 working hours — your muhurta is confirmed by email.
The day before — your telecast link arrives by email.
After the homa — tracking email with how and when to wear the Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Yantra.
The most auspicious days for a Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Homa
Nakshatra homas are strongest when the star itself is shining. These are the occasions the tradition favours for the Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Homa.
The moon transits your birth star roughly once each lunar month. That day is the first choice for this homa.
The annual return of Purva Bhadrapada in your birth month — the traditional day to renew the rite for the year ahead.
Jupiter rules Purva Bhadrapada, so Thursdays and the hora of Guru are held auspicious when the nakshatra day is not near.
Ahead of a wedding, a journey, a new house or a new venture, and at the onset of a Guru or Shani period, devotees request an early muhurat.
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.
What you receive
The sealing of the Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Yantra
The Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra 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.
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 Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra 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.
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 any family members you add, 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.
How to wear your energised Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Yantra
Your auspicious time to wear it
Wear it for the first time on a Thursday, 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.
At a funeral
Take the yantra off before you attend a funeral.
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.
Keep the energy intact
You may repeat this energising once a week or once a month.
How your Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Homa is performed
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.
Ganapati Puja
The customary invocation to Ganapati, clearing obstacles before the deity is approached.
Agni Pratishtha
The fire is consecrated in the homa kunda and Agni invoked as the carrier of every offering that follows.
Aja Ekapada Avahana
The mula mantra of Aja Ekapada is chanted, inviting the deity's presence into the fire — by one, three or five priests as your package sets.
Ahuti
Ghee and akshata, with the flowers, grains and dravyas proper to this deity, are offered in sequence with mantra. Each priest makes 108 of these offerings with the mula mantra of Aja Ekapada — 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.
Purnahuti
The final complete offering seals the sankalpa stated at the opening.
Aarti & Dispatch
Aarti is performed live on your telecast. Vibhuti, sandalwood powder, kumkum and your energised Purva Bhadrapada Nakshatra Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.
Aja Ekapada
A one-footed form of Rudra, invoked in the Veda as the unborn one who rises in the east before dawn while all beings rejoice. He stands upright on a single support, luminous and austere, holding fire and the pillar of the sky. Older hymns count him among the storm powers and pair him with Ahirbudhnya, the serpent of the deep, so he is understood as a guardian of thresholds, of the boundary between the seen world and what lies beyond it. The tradition gives him the presiding place over Purva Bhadrapada. Devotees turn to this severe form when life asks for depth rather than ease, seeking his steadiness, his ascetic fire, and his watch over hidden things.
In this homa that grace is invoked through fire, with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.
Ask before you book
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Frequently asked
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.
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Arudra Nakshatra Homa
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Ashlesha Nakshatra Homa
For those born under Ashlesha — birth-star alignment, protection and steady prosperity.
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