Ganesh Prashnavali
The Ganesh Prashnavali is a square chart of 64 numbers, eight rows of eight. You say Ganesh ji’s mantra, hold one question in mind and touch a number. Each number has a fixed answer, most of them with a small remedy. Families turn to it before a new start: a shop, a job, an exam, a move.
Touch any number to ask your question.
- Sit facing the chart and remember Ganesh ji, the remover of obstacles.
- Say the mantra below eleven times. Some people write their question on paper first.
- Close your eyes and touch one of the 64 numbers with your right hand.
Mantra: ॐ गं गणपतये नमः (Om Gam Ganapataye Namah), say it 11 times
Touch any number to ask your question.
How does the Ganesh Prashnavali work?
The chart is a square of 64 cells in eight rows of eight, numbered 1 to 64. Every number has its own answer. You touch one number, without looking if you can, and read what is written against it. Nothing is added up or worked out: the number is the answer.
Most of the 64 answers lean towards a yes, since Ganesh ji is the god people ask before they begin, and many end with an upay. The remedies range widely: durva grass for Ganesh ji himself, water for a peepal tree, a Satyanarayan katha, food for a cow or for fish. A few answers say plainly that the work is not right for you, and those are worth taking seriously.
Why ask Ganesh ji before a new start?
Ganesh ji is worshipped first at every puja because he clears the way. A wedding card, a new account book on Diwali and a shop opening all begin with "Shri Ganeshaya Namah". Asking his prashnavali is the same instinct: before you sign or move, you ask the one who removes obstacles whether this path is open.
That is why the chart’s answers talk so much about business, travel, money and family. If the answer is good and you are ready to begin, pick a good hour for the start itself. The Abhijit Muhurat around midday and the shubh and labh choghadiya for your city are the usual choices.
Where does the Ganesh Prashnavali come from?
Like the Hanuman chart, the 64-number Ganesh chakra comes from household almanacs and devotional booklets rather than from a single scripture, and its author is not recorded. Its answers are fixed: the older sources we compared give the same meaning for each of the 64 numbers, even where the wording differs.
We matched our list against them number by number, then wrote each answer in our own words. Where the remedies differed in a small detail, such as which day to fast, we kept the version the sources agree on.
Which day is best for the Ganesh Prashnavali?
Wednesday is Ganesh ji’s weekday, and Chaturthi, the fourth day of each lunar fortnight, is his tithi. Ganesh Chaturthi in Bhadrapada is the biggest day of all. Asking in the morning after a bath, with a lamp lit before his picture, is the common practice.
Keep to one question at a time and do not ask the same thing twice in a day. If the answer gives a remedy, start it on the next Wednesday or on the day it names.
All 64 answers of the Ganesh Prashnavali
Every number and its answer, as the chart gives them. Ask first, then read.
All 64 answers of the Ganesh Prashnavali
| No. | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1 | Favourable: Your wish will surely be fulfilled.Upay (remedy): Chant Ram’s name whenever you have a moment. |
| 2 | Take care: The work you want to do could bring a loss. Think of something else.Upay (remedy): Feed a cow. |
| 3 | Favourable: The time for your worry to end has come. The trouble will pass and you will succeed.Upay (remedy): Worship a peepal tree every day. |
| 4 | Favourable: A gain is coming, the family will grow and comfort and property are in sight.Upay (remedy): Worship your family deity. |
| 5 | Favourable: If work takes you on a journey, do not worry: it will bring a gain.Upay (remedy): Worship Shani Dev. |
| 6 | Favourable: Your wish will be fulfilled by the end of the month.Upay (remedy): Worship Shri Ganesh every morning. |
| 7 | Favourable: The money shortage will end soon, the family will grow and money will come through a woman. |
| 8 | Favourable: Both money and children are in sight.Upay (remedy): Worship Shani Dev on Saturday. |
| 9 | Favourable: The planets favour you. What has gone from you will come back. |
| 10 | Favourable: Happy news is coming soon, and your wish will be fulfilled.Upay (remedy): Pray every day. |
| 11 | Be patient: If the business is losing money, consider a different line of work, and success will follow.Upay (remedy): Pour water on a peepal tree every day. |
| 12 | Favourable: You will gain from the government and earn respect. The east is lucky for you, and a journey that way may come. |
| 13 | Favourable: Your best time is a few days away. Work in the cloth trade would suit you well. |
| 14 | Favourable: Your wish will come true, a gain from the government is likely, and you will meet a friend or brother. |
| 15 | Favourable: If you dream of going to a village, good news will follow. A son will bring gain, and money is in sight. |
| 16 | Favourable: You will succeed. The Mother Goddess will show you the way in a dream.Upay (remedy): Worship the Devi. |
| 17 | Favourable: Your good time has come. Worry will end, and money and comfort will follow. |
| 18 | Favourable: You may travel; the journey will be auspicious and profitable.Upay (remedy): Worship your family goddess. |
| 19 | Be patient: About a year and a half remains before the problem is solved. Ask your parents before every step.Upay (remedy): Serve your family deity and a Brahmin. |
| 20 | Favourable: What was lost will be found, and the money problem will ease too.Upay (remedy): Worship Shani Dev on Saturday. |
| 21 | Favourable: Whatever you take up will succeed. Travel abroad is also in sight.Upay (remedy): Worship Shri Ganesh. |
| 22 | Be patient: If there is strife at home, pray daily and look after your parents, and peace will return. |
| 23 | Favourable: Your problems will clear soon. Just keep your mind on your work.Upay (remedy): Worship Lord Shankar. |
| 24 | Be patient: The planets are not in your favour.Upay (remedy): Worship the nine planets daily; the trouble will lessen and gain will follow. |
| 25 | Be patient: Money trouble is causing strife at home, and it will clear in a few days.Upay (remedy): Worship Maa Lakshmi every day. |
| 26 | Be patient: If dark thoughts are troubling you, let them go.Upay (remedy): Hold a Satyanarayan katha at home. |
| 27 | Take care: The work you are doing now is not right for you. Think about something else.Upay (remedy): Worship your family deity. |
| 28 | Favourable: Tension at home will ease and money will come.Upay (remedy): Worship a peepal tree and light a lamp there. |
| 29 | Favourable: You will get the success you want, and peace will stay at home.Upay (remedy): Worship Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma daily. |
| 30 | Be patient: Take a little care in your job or business, and you will succeed.Upay (remedy): Fast on Sunday and worship the Sun. |
| 31 | Favourable: Business will profit and the home will be happy.Upay (remedy): Give sweets to small children. |
| 32 | Favourable: You are worrying for nothing. Everything is going well.Upay (remedy): Feed a cow. |
| 33 | Favourable: Every wish of yours will be fulfilled.Upay (remedy): Serve your parents, feed a Brahmin and worship Shri Ram. |
| 34 | Favourable: Your wish will be fulfilled, and grain, wealth and family will grow.Upay (remedy): Feed a dog a roti with oil on it. |
| 35 | Take care: Things are not in your favour now. Whatever you do, take your elders’ advice first.Upay (remedy): Worship Lord Dattatreya. |
| 36 | Be patient: Be patient: every difficulty will clear.Upay (remedy): Offer durva grass to Shri Ganesh daily and worship him. |
| 37 | Favourable: Keep at what you are doing. The gain will come from this same work.Upay (remedy): Worship Lord Vishnu. |
| 38 | Be patient: If steady money losses are worrying you, do not panic: a better time is near.Upay (remedy): Offer sindoor to Hanuman ji on Tuesday. |
| 39 | Be patient: The trouble will end and you will succeed, once you keep a vow of worship.Upay (remedy): Hold a Satyanarayan katha. |
| 40 | Favourable: Farming and trade will profit, and you will succeed in every field.Upay (remedy): Worship Hanuman ji. |
| 41 | Favourable: Money will come, the family will grow and worries will lift.Upay (remedy): Worship your family goddess. |
| 42 | Favourable: Success is close. Your parents and friends will stand by you.Upay (remedy): Spend less and give to the poor. |
| 43 | Favourable: Stalled work will be completed and money troubles will ease. Decide with care.Upay (remedy): Offer butter and sugar crystals to Shri Krishna. |
| 44 | Favourable: Work that was going wrong will come right.Upay (remedy): Give time to religious work and pray daily. |
| 45 | Favourable: Be patient and do not waste time on needless worry. You will get the result you want.Upay (remedy): Meditate on God. |
| 46 | Favourable: You may go on a pilgrimage, and it will bring a gain.Upay (remedy): Chant the Gayatri mantra daily. |
| 47 | Favourable: Fear of enemies will leave you and your wish will be fulfilled.Upay (remedy): Offer water to the rising Sun daily. |
| 48 | Favourable: Carry on with what you are doing. Meeting old friends will help you.Upay (remedy): Pour water on a peepal tree daily. |
| 49 | Be patient: If the trouble is about money, it will clear.Upay (remedy): Recite the Shri Suktam daily and worship Lakshmi ji. |
| 50 | Favourable: You will surely get what is yours by right. Do not worry; keep working steadily.Upay (remedy): Pray every day. |
| 51 | Favourable: The business you have in mind will succeed. Do nothing wrong for money.Upay (remedy): Give to people in need every day. |
| 52 | Favourable: Within a month the difficulties will lessen and success will begin.Upay (remedy): Feed young girls (kanya bhojan). |
| 53 | Favourable: If you are thinking of going abroad, go: success lies there.Upay (remedy): Worship Shri Ganesh. |
| 54 | Be patient: Take advice before each step or you may lose out. Do not fear the hard patch: you will succeed. |
| 55 | Favourable: A gain is coming and your wish will be fulfilled.Upay (remedy): Light a lamp at a temple every day. |
| 56 | Be patient: If a family member’s illness is worrying you, it will ease in a few days.Upay (remedy): Chant the Mahamrityunjaya mantra daily. |
| 57 | Take care: The time is not favourable. Keep your attention on your work.Upay (remedy): For a promotion, feed a cow a roti daily. |
| 58 | Favourable: Wealth and comfort are in your fate. Be a little patient.Upay (remedy): Offer a coconut to Lakshmi ji. |
| 59 | Favourable: The work will surely be done, though you may need someone’s help.Upay (remedy): Worship Shani Dev. |
| 60 | Be patient: Let go of the quarrel with your family; only then will success come.Upay (remedy): Light a four-wicked lamp at a Hanuman temple daily. |
| 61 | Favourable: If your career is worrying you, Shri Ganesh’s grace will bring a gain.Upay (remedy): Worship Shri Ganesh. |
| 62 | Favourable: Stalled work will move again.Upay (remedy): Offer a pot of water at a Shiva temple daily and light a lamp. |
| 63 | Take care: What you are asking about is not auspicious. Stop thinking about it.Upay (remedy): Worship the nine planets. |
| 64 | Be patient: Many troubles surround you, and they will slowly sort themselves out.Upay (remedy): Feed small balls of dough to fish every day. |
Ganesh Prashnavali: frequently asked questions
Which mantra should I say for the Ganesh Prashnavali?
"Om Gam Ganapataye Namah", eleven times, silently or aloud. It is Ganesh ji’s seed mantra and the one most families use before asking.
Is the Ganesh Prashnavali good for exam or job questions?
Yes. Questions about starting something, such as a course, a job or a business, are exactly what people bring to Ganesh ji.
Why do some answers mention Shani Dev or Hanuman ji?
The remedies follow folk practice, which pairs each kind of trouble with the deity people pray to for it. Ganesh ji is honoured first, and the remedy may point onward.
Should I follow the remedy exactly?
Follow it as far as you sincerely can. If something is not possible for you, an honest prayer and a small act of charity on the same day keep the spirit of it.
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Pictures: Ravi Varma Press prints, about 1910, public domain (Wikimedia Commons).