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March 2026
Shanivara
Sunrise
6:15 AM
Sunset
6:36 PM
Sunrise
6:14 AM 29 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Dashami
- until 8:46 AM
- then Shukla Ekadashi
- Nakṣatra
- Pushya
- until 2:50 PM
- then Ashlesha
- Yoga
- Sukarma
- until 8:06 PM
- then Dhriti
- Karaṇa
- Gara
- until 8:46 AM
- then Vanija until 8:13 PM
- then Vishti
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 2:07 PM
- sets 3:20 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:15 AM
- Kāla Loss 6:15 AM – 7:48 AM
- Śubha Good 7:48 AM – 9:21 AM
- Roga Illness 9:21 AM – 10:53 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:53 AM – 12:26 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:26 PM – 1:58 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:58 PM – 3:31 PM
- Amṛta Best 3:31 PM – 5:04 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:04 PM – 6:36 PM
- Night from 6:36 PM
- Lābha Gain 6:36 PM – 8:03 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:03 PM – 9:31 PM
- Śubha Good 9:31 PM – 10:58 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:58 PM – 12:25 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:25 AM – 1:52 AM
- Roga Illness 1:52 AM – 3:20 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:20 AM – 4:47 AM
- Lābha Gain 4:47 AM – 6:14 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:42 AM – 5:29 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:01 PM – 12:50 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 6:15 AM – 7:48 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 9:21 AM – 10:53 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:58 PM – 3:31 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.