23
January 2026
Shukravara
- Gupt Navratri day 5 of 9
- Panchami
Sunrise
7:13 AM
Sunset
5:52 PM
Sunrise
7:12 AM 24 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Panchami
- until 1:46 AM
- then Shukla Shashthi
- Nakṣatra
- Purva Bhadrapada
- until 2:33 PM
- then Uttara Bhadrapada
- Yoga
- Parigha
- until 3:59 PM
- then Shiva
- Karaṇa
- Bava
- until 2:10 PM
- then Balava until 1:46 AM
- then Kaulava
- Vāra
- Shukravara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 9:52 AM
- sets 10:17 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:13 AM
- Cala Neutral 7:13 AM – 8:33 AM
- Lābha Gain 8:33 AM – 9:53 AM
- Amṛta Best 9:53 AM – 11:12 AM
- Kāla Loss 11:12 AM – 12:32 PM
- Śubha Good 12:32 PM – 1:52 PM
- Roga Illness 1:52 PM – 3:12 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 3:12 PM – 4:32 PM
- Cala Neutral 4:32 PM – 5:52 PM
- Night from 5:52 PM
- Roga Illness 5:52 PM – 7:32 PM
- Kāla Loss 7:32 PM – 9:12 PM
- Lābha Gain 9:12 PM – 10:52 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:52 PM – 12:32 AM
- Śubha Good 12:32 AM – 2:12 AM
- Amṛta Best 2:12 AM – 3:52 AM
- Cala Neutral 3:52 AM – 5:32 AM
- Roga Illness 5:32 AM – 7:12 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:26 AM – 6:19 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:11 PM – 12:54 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 8:33 AM – 9:53 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 11:12 AM – 12:32 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 3:12 PM – 4:32 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.