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March 2026
Guruvara
- Amavasya
- Chaitra Navratri day 1 of 9
- Navratri day 1 of 9
Sunrise
6:26 AM
Sunset
6:31 PM
Sunrise
6:25 AM 20 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Amavasya
- until 6:53 AM
- then Shukla Pratipada until 4:52 AM
- then Shukla Dwitiya
- Nakṣatra
- Uttara Bhadrapada
- until 4:05 AM
- then Revati
- Yoga
- Shukla
- until 1:17 AM
- then Brahma
- Karaṇa
- Naga
- until 6:53 AM
- then Kimstughna until 5:56 PM
- then Bava until 4:52 AM
- then Balava
- Vāra
- Guruvara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 6:23 AM
- sets 6:58 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:26 AM
- Śubha Good 6:26 AM – 7:56 AM
- Roga Illness 7:56 AM – 9:27 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:27 AM – 10:58 AM
- Cala Neutral 10:58 AM – 12:28 PM
- Lābha Gain 12:28 PM – 1:59 PM
- Amṛta Best 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
- Kāla Loss 3:30 PM – 5:01 PM
- Śubha Good 5:01 PM – 6:31 PM
- Night from 6:31 PM
- Amṛta Best 6:31 PM – 8:00 PM
- Cala Neutral 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
- Roga Illness 9:30 PM – 10:59 PM
- Kāla Loss 10:59 PM – 12:28 AM
- Lābha Gain 12:28 AM – 1:57 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 1:57 AM – 3:26 AM
- Śubha Good 3:26 AM – 4:55 AM
- Amṛta Best 4:55 AM – 6:25 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:50 AM – 5:38 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:04 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 6:26 AM – 7:56 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 9:27 AM – 10:58 AM
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 1:59 PM – 3:30 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.