4
April 2026
Shanivara
- Vaishakh Maas day 3 of 30
- Dooj
Sunrise
6:07 AM
Sunset
6:40 PM
Sunrise
6:06 AM 5 Apr
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Dwitiya
- until 10:09 AM
- then Krishna Tritiya
- Nakṣatra
- Swati
- until 9:35 PM
- then Vishakha
- Yoga
- Harshana
- until 2:17 PM
- then Vajra
- Karaṇa
- Gara
- until 10:09 AM
- then Vanija until 11:02 PM
- then Vishti
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 8:56 PM
- sets 7:02 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:07 AM
- Kāla Loss 6:07 AM – 7:41 AM
- Śubha Good 7:41 AM – 9:15 AM
- Roga Illness 9:15 AM – 10:50 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:50 AM – 12:24 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:24 PM – 1:58 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:58 PM – 3:32 PM
- Amṛta Best 3:32 PM – 5:06 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:06 PM – 6:40 PM
- Night from 6:40 PM
- Lābha Gain 6:40 PM – 8:06 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:06 PM – 9:32 PM
- Śubha Good 9:32 PM – 10:57 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:57 PM – 12:23 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:23 AM – 1:49 AM
- Roga Illness 1:49 AM – 3:15 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:15 AM – 4:40 AM
- Lābha Gain 4:40 AM – 6:06 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:36 AM – 5:21 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:59 AM – 12:49 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 6:07 AM – 7:41 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 9:15 AM – 10:50 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:58 PM – 3:32 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.