21
March 2026
Shanivara
- Chaitra Navratri day 3 of 9
- Navratri day 3 of 9
Sunrise
6:23 AM
Sunset
6:32 PM
Sunrise
6:22 AM 22 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Tritiya
- until 11:56 PM
- then Shukla Chaturthi
- Nakṣatra
- Ashwini
- until 12:37 AM
- then Bharani
- Yoga
- Indra
- until 7:01 PM
- then Vaidhriti
- Karaṇa
- Taitila
- until 1:15 PM
- then Gara until 11:56 PM
- then Vanija
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 7:31 AM
- sets 9:09 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:23 AM
- Kāla Loss 6:23 AM – 7:55 AM
- Śubha Good 7:55 AM – 9:26 AM
- Roga Illness 9:26 AM – 10:57 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:57 AM – 12:28 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:28 PM – 1:59 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
- Amṛta Best 3:30 PM – 5:01 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:01 PM – 6:32 PM
- Night from 6:32 PM
- Lābha Gain 6:32 PM – 8:01 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:01 PM – 9:30 PM
- Śubha Good 9:30 PM – 10:59 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:59 PM – 12:27 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:27 AM – 1:56 AM
- Roga Illness 1:56 AM – 3:25 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:25 AM – 4:54 AM
- Lābha Gain 4:54 AM – 6:22 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:49 AM – 5:36 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:04 PM – 12:52 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 6:23 AM – 7:55 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 9:26 AM – 10:57 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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.