17
March 2026
Mangalavara
Sunrise
6:28 AM
Sunset
6:30 PM
Sunrise
6:27 AM 18 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Trayodashi
- until 9:23 AM
- then Krishna Chaturdashi
- Nakṣatra
- Shatabhisha
- until 6:09 AM
- then Purva Bhadrapada
- Yoga
- Siddha
- until 8:15 AM
- then Sadhya until 6:22 AM
- then Shubha
- Karaṇa
- Vanija
- until 9:23 AM
- then Vishti until 8:59 PM
- then Shakuni
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 5:21 AM
- sets 4:54 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:28 AM
- Roga Illness 6:28 AM – 7:58 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:58 AM – 9:29 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:29 AM – 10:59 AM
- Lābha Gain 10:59 AM – 12:29 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:29 PM – 1:59 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
- Śubha Good 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
- Roga Illness 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
- Night from 6:30 PM
- Kāla Loss 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
- Lābha Gain 8:00 PM – 9:29 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:29 PM – 10:59 PM
- Śubha Good 10:59 PM – 12:28 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:28 AM – 1:58 AM
- Cala Neutral 1:58 AM – 3:28 AM
- Roga Illness 3:28 AM – 4:57 AM
- Kāla Loss 4:57 AM – 6:27 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:52 AM – 5:40 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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Yamagaṇḍa 9:29 AM – 10:59 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:29 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 3:30 PM – 5:00 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.