21
April 2026
Mangalavara
- Vaishakh Maas day 20 of 30
- Panchami
Sunrise
5:49 AM
Sunset
6:50 PM
Sunrise
5:48 AM 22 Apr
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Panchami
- until 1:20 AM
- then Shukla Shashthi
- Nakṣatra
- Mrigashira
- until 11:58 PM
- then Ardra
- Yoga
- Shobhana
- until 12:31 PM
- then Atiganda
- Karaṇa
- Bava
- until 2:45 PM
- then Balava until 1:20 AM
- then Kaulava
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 8:38 AM
- sets 11:31 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:49 AM
- Roga Illness 5:49 AM – 7:27 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:27 AM – 9:04 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:04 AM – 10:42 AM
- Lābha Gain 10:42 AM – 12:19 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:19 PM – 1:57 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:57 PM – 3:35 PM
- Śubha Good 3:35 PM – 5:12 PM
- Roga Illness 5:12 PM – 6:50 PM
- Night from 6:50 PM
- Kāla Loss 6:50 PM – 8:12 PM
- Lābha Gain 8:12 PM – 9:34 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:34 PM – 10:57 PM
- Śubha Good 10:57 PM – 12:19 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:19 AM – 1:41 AM
- Cala Neutral 1:41 AM – 3:04 AM
- Roga Illness 3:04 AM – 4:26 AM
- Kāla Loss 4:26 AM – 5:48 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:21 AM – 5:05 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:53 AM – 12:45 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 9:04 AM – 10:42 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:19 PM – 1:57 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 3:35 PM – 5:12 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.