16
March 2026
Somavara
Sunrise
6:29 AM
Sunset
6:29 PM
Sunrise
6:28 AM 17 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Dwadashi
- until 9:41 AM
- then Krishna Trayodashi
- Nakṣatra
- Dhanishta
- until 6:22 AM
- then Shatabhisha
- Yoga
- Shiva
- until 9:36 AM
- then Siddha
- Karaṇa
- Taitila
- until 9:41 AM
- then Gara until 9:37 PM
- then Vanija
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 4:47 AM
- sets 3:53 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:29 AM
- Amṛta Best 6:29 AM – 7:59 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:59 AM – 9:29 AM
- Śubha Good 9:29 AM – 10:59 AM
- Roga Illness 10:59 AM – 12:29 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:29 PM – 1:59 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:59 PM – 3:29 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:29 PM – 4:59 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:59 PM – 6:29 PM
- Night from 6:29 PM
- Cala Neutral 6:29 PM – 7:59 PM
- Roga Illness 7:59 PM – 9:29 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:29 PM – 10:59 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:59 PM – 12:29 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:29 AM – 1:59 AM
- Śubha Good 1:59 AM – 3:28 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:28 AM – 4:58 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:58 AM – 6:28 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:53 AM – 5:41 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:05 PM – 12:53 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:59 AM – 9:29 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:59 AM – 12:29 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:59 PM – 3:29 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.