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Auspicious annaprāśana dates in Melbourne, Australia
April 2026 · Australia/Melbourne · ranked by panchānga (no birth chart needed)
Baby's first solid food: a benefic lagna and an auspicious nakshatra with the 10th empty. Each day below is scored purely on chart-independent factors — tithi, vāra, nakshatra, yoga and karana — with a good lagna window for Melbourne. See today's full panchāṅga for Melbourne →
These dates ignore your birth chart.
The classical method also weighs your janma nakshatra (tāra bala), Moon sign (chandra bala) and the muhūrta chart against your horoscope. Rank these same days for your chart — free, deterministic, no AI.
Rank these for YOUR chart →Best annaprāśana dates — April 2026
✓ Hasta nakshatra · Shukla Purnima tithi · Thursday
✓ Shravana nakshatra · Krishna Dashami tithi · Sunday
✓ Punarvasu nakshatra · Shukla Saptami tithi · Thursday
✓ Hasta nakshatra · Shukla Trayodashi tithi · Wednesday
✓ Swati nakshatra · Krishna Dwitiya tithi
✗ Saturday is not a preferred weekday
✓ Uttara Phalguni nakshatra · Wednesday
✗ Chaturdashi tithi is not preferred · Rikta tithi (Chaturdashi)
✓ Anuradha nakshatra · Monday
✗ Chaturthi tithi is not preferred · Rikta tithi (Chaturthi)
✓ Anuradha nakshatra · Krishna Panchami tithi
✗ Tuesday is not a preferred weekday · Vyatipata yoga is inauspicious
✓ Dhanishta nakshatra · Monday
✗ Ekadashi tithi is not preferred
✓ Chitra nakshatra · Friday
✗ Pratipada tithi is not preferred · Vyaghata yoga is inauspicious
✓ Uttara Ashadha nakshatra
✗ Navami tithi is not preferred · Rikta tithi (Navami) · Saturday is not a preferred weekday
✓ Shatabhisha nakshatra
✗ Dwadashi tithi is not preferred · Tuesday is not a preferred weekday
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Score = share of the chart-independent panchānga factors met (tithi, vāra, nakshatra, yoga, karana). Eclipse days score 0.
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Computed deterministically with a license-clean Vedic engine (astronomy-engine, VSOP87-grade). Lahiri ayanāṁśa, drik gaṇita, grounded in Ch.36 Table 79. Advisory only — for a chart-specific muhūrta, open the finder.