24
March 2026
Mangalavara
- Chaitra Navratri day 6 of 9
- Navratri day 6 of 9
Sunrise
6:20 AM
Sunset
6:34 PM
Sunrise
6:19 AM 25 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Shashthi
- until 4:08 PM
- then Shukla Saptami
- Nakṣatra
- Rohini
- until 7:05 PM
- then Mrigashira
- Yoga
- Priti
- until 9:07 AM
- then Ayushman until 6:02 AM
- then Saubhagya
- Karaṇa
- Taitila
- until 4:08 PM
- then Gara until 2:57 AM
- then Vanija
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 9:48 AM
- sets —
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:20 AM
- Roga Illness 6:20 AM – 7:52 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:52 AM – 9:23 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:23 AM – 10:55 AM
- Lābha Gain 10:55 AM – 12:27 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:27 PM – 1:59 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:59 PM – 3:31 PM
- Śubha Good 3:31 PM – 5:02 PM
- Roga Illness 5:02 PM – 6:34 PM
- Night from 6:34 PM
- Kāla Loss 6:34 PM – 8:02 PM
- Lābha Gain 8:02 PM – 9:30 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:30 PM – 10:58 PM
- Śubha Good 10:58 PM – 12:26 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:26 AM – 1:55 AM
- Cala Neutral 1:55 AM – 3:23 AM
- Roga Illness 3:23 AM – 4:51 AM
- Kāla Loss 4:51 AM – 6:19 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:46 AM – 5:33 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:03 PM – 12:51 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 9:23 AM – 10:55 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:27 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 3:31 PM – 5:02 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.