Muhurta Chintamani

Muhurta Chintamani is a classical Sanskrit primary text, the tradition's own statement of Hindu electional astrology including the lunar tithi system used to determine auspicious timing, not independent scholarship verifying that the system it sets out actually identifies auspicious moments. As a primary text it is authoritative for what this specific text itself prescribes, checkable against the translation, not for a modern scholarly account of how Hindu calendrical and electional practice actually developed or is practiced today. Use it for the content of this text's own tithi and electional framework; a claim about the historical development of Hindu calendrical astrology more broadly needs a dedicated modern scholarly source rather than this primary tradition text.