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February 2026
Mangalavara
Sunrise
6:57 AM
Sunset
6:12 PM
Sunrise
6:56 AM 18 Feb
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Amavasya
- until 5:31 PM
- then Shukla Pratipada
- Nakṣatra
- Dhanishta
- until 9:16 PM
- then Shatabhisha
- Yoga
- Parigha
- until 12:28 AM
- then Shiva
- Karaṇa
- Naga
- until 5:31 PM
- then Kimstughna until 5:18 AM
- then Bava
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 6:51 AM
- sets 6:08 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:57 AM
- Roga Illness 6:57 AM – 8:22 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:22 AM – 9:46 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:46 AM – 11:10 AM
- Lābha Gain 11:10 AM – 12:35 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:35 PM – 1:59 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:59 PM – 3:23 PM
- Śubha Good 3:23 PM – 4:48 PM
- Roga Illness 4:48 PM – 6:12 PM
- Night from 6:12 PM
- Kāla Loss 6:12 PM – 7:48 PM
- Lābha Gain 7:48 PM – 9:23 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:23 PM – 10:59 PM
- Śubha Good 10:59 PM – 12:34 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:34 AM – 2:10 AM
- Cala Neutral 2:10 AM – 3:45 AM
- Roga Illness 3:45 AM – 5:21 AM
- Kāla Loss 5:21 AM – 6:56 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:15 AM – 6:06 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:12 PM – 12:57 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 9:46 AM – 11:10 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:35 PM – 1:59 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 3:23 PM – 4:48 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.