The ceremony of fixing the image shall be performed in the Uttarāyaṇa —when the Sun’s course is towards the north,—in the light half of a month, when the Moon occupies the house, the Navāṃśa, the Triṃsāṃśa, the Drekkāṇa or the Dvādaśāṃśa of Jupiter; when the rising sign and the rising Navāṃśa are fixed, when benefic planets occupy the Kendra or the Trikoṇa houses, and the malefic planets occupy the 3 rd , 6 th and 11 th houses, when the Moon passes either through any of the fixed asterisms or the soft asterisms, or through the asterism of Śravaṇa , Puṣya or Svāti , on any week day excepting Tuesday, and on a day suited to the master’s star.