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January 2026
Budhavara
- Gupt Navratri day 3 of 9
Sunrise
7:13 AM
Sunset
5:51 PM
Sunrise
7:13 AM 22 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Tritiya
- until 2:47 AM
- then Shukla Chaturthi
- Nakṣatra
- Dhanishta
- until 1:58 PM
- then Shatabhisha
- Yoga
- Vyatipata
- until 6:58 PM
- then Variyana
- Karaṇa
- Taitila
- until 2:48 PM
- then Gara until 2:47 AM
- then Vanija
- Vāra
- Budhavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 8:51 AM
- sets 8:19 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:13 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:13 AM – 8:33 AM
- Amṛta Best 8:33 AM – 9:53 AM
- Kāla Loss 9:53 AM – 11:12 AM
- Śubha Good 11:12 AM – 12:32 PM
- Roga Illness 12:32 PM – 1:52 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 1:52 PM – 3:11 PM
- Cala Neutral 3:11 PM – 4:31 PM
- Lābha Gain 4:31 PM – 5:51 PM
- Night from 5:51 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:51 PM – 7:31 PM
- Śubha Good 7:31 PM – 9:11 PM
- Amṛta Best 9:11 PM – 10:51 PM
- Cala Neutral 10:51 PM – 12:32 AM
- Roga Illness 12:32 AM – 2:12 AM
- Kāla Loss 2:12 AM – 3:52 AM
- Lābha Gain 3:52 AM – 5:33 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 5:33 AM – 7:13 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:26 AM – 6:20 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:11 PM – 12:53 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods — but many traditions do not observe it on a Wednesday.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 8:33 AM – 9:53 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 11:12 AM – 12:32 PM
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 12:32 PM – 1:52 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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.