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December 2025
Shanivara
Sunrise
7:09 AM
Sunset
5:28 PM
Sunrise
7:09 AM 21 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Amavasya
- until 7:13 AM
- then Shukla Pratipada
- Nakṣatra
- Mula
- until 1:21 AM
- then Purva Ashadha
- Yoga
- Ganda
- until 4:17 PM
- then Vriddhi
- Karaṇa
- Naga
- until 7:13 AM
- then Kimstughna until 8:14 PM
- then Bava
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 7:27 AM
- sets 5:31 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:09 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:09 AM – 8:26 AM
- Śubha Good 8:26 AM – 9:43 AM
- Roga Illness 9:43 AM – 11:01 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 11:01 AM – 12:18 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:18 PM – 1:36 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:36 PM – 2:53 PM
- Amṛta Best 2:53 PM – 4:10 PM
- Kāla Loss 4:10 PM – 5:28 PM
- Night from 5:28 PM
- Lābha Gain 5:28 PM – 7:11 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:11 PM – 8:53 PM
- Śubha Good 8:53 PM – 10:36 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:36 PM – 12:19 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:19 AM – 2:01 AM
- Roga Illness 2:01 AM – 3:44 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:44 AM – 5:26 AM
- Lābha Gain 5:26 AM – 7:09 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:19 AM – 6:14 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:58 AM – 12:39 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 7:09 AM – 8:26 AM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
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Rāhu kāla 9:43 AM – 11:01 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:36 PM – 2:53 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 24 Jul 2026 to 20 Nov 2026, from Devaśayanī Ekādaśī in Āṣāḍha to Prabodhinī Ekādaśī in Kārtika.
The choghaḍiyā and the periods above are marked customary: they are widely kept practice, and no text this site publishes prescribes them yet. The aṅgas, sunrise and sunset are computed and exact.
Computed with dṛk gaṇita (observation-based) and the Lahiri (Citrāpakṣa) ayanāṁśa, from the Swiss Ephemeris. The day's aṅgas are those running at sunrise. How dates are computed.