TRT-4318
Maha Mrityunjaya Havan
Where this booking has reached, and what happens next.
What you can do now
The rite is under way, so it can no longer be called off from here. If something is wrong, say so in the live puja and the desk watching the session will answer.
Muhurat
Monday, 7 September 2026
04:10 am – 07:40 am
Your time · GST
Monday, 7 September 2026
05:40 am – 09:10 am
India time · IST
- Reference
- TRT-4318
- How it is performed
- Performed for you in India
- Package
- TraditionalRuns about 3 hr 30 min
- Paid with
- Net banking8802Paid
- Goes to · Home
- Harish MenonVilla 27, Al Barsha South 2Dubai, Dubai 00000United Arab Emirates
Progress
Where this booking has reached
A step marked not applicable is one this way of performing the rite does not include. It is shown rather than hidden, with the reason, so the count of steps always adds up.
Step 5 of 8: Ritual in progress
Completed
Booking confirmed
Your timeGSTIndia timeISTYour booking is held for the Brahma muhurat of 7 September at Mahakaleshwar, Ujjain. Your gotra is on record and will be named in the sankalp.
Tirtha
Completed
Purohit and temple confirmed
Your timeGSTIndia timeISTPandit Girish Trivedi will perform the havan with four ritviks. The temple has confirmed the kund and the time slot in writing.
Pandit Girish Trivedi
Completed
Samagri prepared
Your timeGSTIndia timeISTThe samagri was weighed and laid out at the temple the evening before: bilva samidha, black and white sesame, ghee, durva and the havan dravya for the one hundred and twenty-five thousand ahutis.
Temple staff, Mahakaleshwar
Completed
Ready for the muhurat
Your timeGSTIndia timeISTThe kund was lit and the stream opened half an hour before the muhurat, so you could join from Dubai at 03:40 your time.
Happening now
Ritual in progress
Your timeGSTIndia timeISTThe havan is under way. Your sankalp was spoken at the start with your name, your gotra and your mother’s name in it. The stream is live in your bookings, and the ahuti count is shown as the ritviks call it.
Pandit Girish Trivedi and four ritviks
Ahead
Ritual completed
Expected byGSTIndia timeISTThe purnahuti closes the havan, followed by the aarti and the annadana you added.
Ahead
Certificate ready
Expected byGSTIndia timeISTThe certificate carries the sankalp as spoken, the temple seal, the pandit’s name and parampara, the tithi and the ahuti count.
Ahead
Prasad dispatched
Expected byGSTIndia timeISTBhasma from the kund, bilva leaves and a rudraksha from the vedi will be packed at the temple and couriered to Dubai.
Sankalp
As it will be spoken
The sankalp names who the rite is performed for, where, and in whose lineage. It is said aloud before the puja begins. Check it now — anything here can still be corrected.
- The name
- Harish Menonself
- Also named
- Radha Menonmother
- Nandita Menonwife
- Gotra
- Vishvamitra
- The place
- Palakkad
- The rite
- Maha Mrityunjaya Havan
- Spoken in
- English
- In your own words
Kept for my mother during her recovery, in the way our family has always kept it.
This is not read aloud unless you ask for it to be.
Who performs it
The temple
Mahakaleshwar Temple, Ujjain
A Jyotirlinga in the old quarter of Ujjain, above the Rudra Sagar lake. Ujjain was Avanti, a seat of astronomy and Sanskrit learning, and is one of the four cities of the Simhastha Kumbh; Kalidasa writes of the shrine in the Meghaduta. The present temple dates from the eighteenth century, rebuilt under Ranoji Shinde. Its best-known observance is the Bhasma Aarti in the last hours before dawn, for which the sanctum opens earlier than almost any temple in the country.
- Where
- Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh · India
- Streams the rite
- Yes
- Sends prasad
- Yes
Pandit
Girish Trivedi
He trained at a pathashala in Ujjain and has served as a visiting ritvik at Mahakaleshwar for many years, which means his day begins well before the Bhasma Aarti. Rudrabhishek is his ordinary daily work, and he also conducts Maha Mrityunjaya and Shani Shanti havans for families who have been advised these by their own jyotishi. Gujarati families in Ahmedabad and Dubai book him regularly; he speaks Gujarati through the sankalp so that the elders in the room are never left guessing at what is being said. When a family asks him whether a ritual will change an outcome, he tells them plainly that it is a tradition to be kept, not a transaction.
- Lineage
- Krishna Yajurveda, Taittiriya shakha; Shaiva Agama practice
- Recites in
- HI · GU
- Practice
- 22 years · 1,040 pujas
- At the agreed muhurat
- 95%
- Rated
- 4.8 189 reviews
What was checked
- What was checked
Aadhaar and PAN were checked against his bank account name, and a live video selfie was matched to both documents by our onboarding team.
4 Dec 2025
- What was checked
The Mahakaleshwar temple committee confirmed his standing entry on the visiting-ritvik roster for abhishek slots; the dated roster page was photographed by our field team.
11 Dec 2025
- What was checked
He recited the Rudram, Chamakam and the Maha Mrityunjaya homa sequence before a two-member panel, which assessed svara and the correct sequencing of the abhishek dravyas.
13 Jan 2026
- What was checked
A pre-dawn rehearsal stream was reviewed for low-light exposure on the lingam, audio isolation from the surrounding crowd, and a 5 Mbps uplink held for seventy minutes.
20 Feb 2026
- What was checked
Police verification from Ujjain district dated 2 May 2026, along with references from a Rajkot family and an Ahmedabad family he has served since 2014.
8 May 2026
The rite
What is being performed
The Tryambakam mantra of the Rigveda, offered into fire with a declared count. Families keep it during illness, convalescence and long strain.
Payment
What this booking cost
Every line the pricing produced, with the reason for each. There are no charges beyond this total.
| Charges | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maha Mrityunjaya Havan — Traditional | AED 1,367.10 |
| Annadana for fifty people at the temple | AED 926.10 |
| Subtotal | AED 2,293.20 |
| International prasad courierTracked courier from Ujjain. Five working days to the United Arab Emirates. | AED 62.00 |
| Taxes | AED 0.00 |
| Total | AED 2,355.20 |
Charged in AED and settled in INR at 1 INR = 0.0441 AED, fixed at the time of booking. Your bank may apply its own charge.
Prices are shown in AED. There are no charges beyond this total.
Something to correct?
A name in the sankalp, a gotra you have since found, an address that has changed — any of these can still be corrected up to the day before the rite. Quote TRT-4318 and the person who arranged this puja will answer.
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