23
March 2026
Somavara
- Chaitra Navratri day 5 of 9
- Navratri day 5 of 9
- Panchami
Sunrise
6:21 AM
Sunset
6:33 PM
Sunrise
6:20 AM 24 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Panchami
- until 6:38 PM
- then Shukla Shashthi
- Nakṣatra
- Krittika
- until 8:49 PM
- then Rohini
- Yoga
- Vishkumbha
- until 12:22 PM
- then Priti
- Karaṇa
- Bava
- until 7:57 AM
- then Balava until 6:38 PM
- then Kaulava until 5:22 AM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 8:55 AM
- sets 11:30 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:21 AM
- Amṛta Best 6:21 AM – 7:53 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:53 AM – 9:24 AM
- Śubha Good 9:24 AM – 10:56 AM
- Roga Illness 10:56 AM – 12:27 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:27 PM – 1:59 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:30 PM – 5:02 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:02 PM – 6:33 PM
- Night from 6:33 PM
- Cala Neutral 6:33 PM – 8:02 PM
- Roga Illness 8:02 PM – 9:30 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:30 PM – 10:58 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:58 PM – 12:27 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:27 AM – 1:55 AM
- Śubha Good 1:55 AM – 3:23 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:23 AM – 4:52 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:52 AM – 6:20 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:47 AM – 5:34 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:03 PM – 12:52 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:53 AM – 9:24 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:56 AM – 12:27 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:59 PM – 3:30 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.