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March 2026
Somavara
Sunrise
6:45 AM
Sunset
6:21 PM
Sunrise
6:44 AM 3 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Chaturdashi
- until 5:56 PM
- then Shukla Purnima
- Nakṣatra
- Ashlesha
- until 7:51 AM
- then Magha
- Yoga
- Atiganda
- until 12:19 PM
- then Sukarma
- Karaṇa
- Vanija
- until 5:56 PM
- then Vishti until 5:28 AM
- then Bava
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 5:21 PM
- sets 5:59 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:45 AM
- Amṛta Best 6:45 AM – 8:12 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:12 AM – 9:39 AM
- Śubha Good 9:39 AM – 11:06 AM
- Roga Illness 11:06 AM – 12:33 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:33 PM – 2:00 PM
- Cala Neutral 2:00 PM – 3:27 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:27 PM – 4:54 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:54 PM – 6:21 PM
- Night from 6:21 PM
- Cala Neutral 6:21 PM – 7:54 PM
- Roga Illness 7:54 PM – 9:27 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:27 PM – 10:59 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:59 PM – 12:32 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:32 AM – 2:05 AM
- Śubha Good 2:05 AM – 3:38 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:38 AM – 5:11 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:11 AM – 6:44 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:05 AM – 5:55 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:10 PM – 12:56 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 8:12 AM – 9:39 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 11:06 AM – 12:33 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 2:00 PM – 3:27 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
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.