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March 2026
Budhavara
Sunrise
6:27 AM
Sunset
6:31 PM
Sunrise
6:26 AM 19 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Chaturdashi
- until 8:25 AM
- then Krishna Amavasya
- Nakṣatra
- Purva Bhadrapada
- until 5:21 AM
- then Uttara Bhadrapada
- Yoga
- Shubha
- until 4:01 AM
- then Shukla
- Karaṇa
- Shakuni
- until 8:25 AM
- then Chatushpada until 7:43 PM
- then Naga
- Vāra
- Budhavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 5:52 AM
- sets 5:55 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:27 AM
- Lābha Gain 6:27 AM – 7:57 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:57 AM – 9:28 AM
- Kāla Loss 9:28 AM – 10:58 AM
- Śubha Good 10:58 AM – 12:29 PM
- Roga Illness 12:29 PM – 1:59 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
- Cala Neutral 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
- Lābha Gain 5:00 PM – 6:31 PM
- Night from 6:31 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 6:31 PM – 8:00 PM
- Śubha Good 8:00 PM – 9:29 PM
- Amṛta Best 9:29 PM – 10:59 PM
- Cala Neutral 10:59 PM – 12:28 AM
- Roga Illness 12:28 AM – 1:58 AM
- Kāla Loss 1:58 AM – 3:27 AM
- Lābha Gain 3:27 AM – 4:56 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 4:56 AM – 6:26 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:51 AM – 5:39 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 — but many traditions do not observe it on a Wednesday.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 7:57 AM – 9:28 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 10:58 AM – 12:29 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 12:29 PM – 1:59 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.