[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v3.c41.8 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c41.8 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c41.8 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c41.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c41.8) Upākarma is to be done in the morning. If for part of the day, the moon is in conjunction with Uttarāṣāḍhā and then with Śravaṇa that day is not to be chosen for upākarma, but the next day is to be chosen on which the moon is in conjunction with Śravaṇa and Dhaniṣṭhā. Later writers introduced further complications about the zodiacal sign (\*rāśi\*) in which the Sun would be at the time. Garga required that upākarma must be performed during the days when the Sun was in the sign of Leo by the followers of the Sāmaveda and by those who are to the north of the Narmadā river. There is no upākarma in the intercalary month of Śrāvaṇa and Bhādrapada except for the followers of the Sāmaveda who must perform it in the intercalary month. When upākarma is to be done for the first time after a boy’s upanayana, the planets Jupiter and Venus must not be in the position of \*asta\* (i. e. invisibility owing to their being too near the sun). - [Previous: v3.c41.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c41.7) - [Next: v3.c41.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c41.9) - [Up: v3.c41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c41) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c41.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c41.8) · Pramāṇa