17
April 2026
Shukravara
- Vaishakh Maas day 16 of 30
- Amavasya
Sunrise
5:53 AM
Sunset
6:47 PM
Sunrise
5:52 AM 18 Apr
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Amavasya
- until 5:21 PM
- then Shukla Pratipada
- Nakṣatra
- Revati
- until 12:02 PM
- then Ashwini
- Yoga
- Vaidhriti
- until 7:21 AM
- then Vishkumbha until 3:45 AM
- then Priti
- Karaṇa
- Chatushpada
- until 6:50 AM
- then Naga until 5:21 PM
- then Kimstughna until 3:48 AM
- then Bava
- Vāra
- Shukravara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 5:25 AM
- sets 6:50 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:53 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:53 AM – 7:30 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:30 AM – 9:07 AM
- Amṛta Best 9:07 AM – 10:43 AM
- Kāla Loss 10:43 AM – 12:20 PM
- Śubha Good 12:20 PM – 1:57 PM
- Roga Illness 1:57 PM – 3:34 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 3:34 PM – 5:11 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:11 PM – 6:47 PM
- Night from 6:47 PM
- Roga Illness 6:47 PM – 8:11 PM
- Kāla Loss 8:11 PM – 9:34 PM
- Lābha Gain 9:34 PM – 10:57 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:57 PM – 12:20 AM
- Śubha Good 12:20 AM – 1:43 AM
- Amṛta Best 1:43 AM – 3:06 AM
- Cala Neutral 3:06 AM – 4:29 AM
- Roga Illness 4:29 AM – 5:52 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:24 AM – 5:09 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:54 AM – 12:46 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 7:30 AM – 9:07 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 10:43 AM – 12:20 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 3:34 PM – 5:11 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.