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May 2026
Shanivara
Sunrise
5:39 AM
Sunset
6:56 PM
Sunrise
5:38 AM 3 May
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Pratipada
- until 12:50 AM
- then Krishna Dwitiya
- Nakṣatra
- Vishakha
- until 7:10 AM
- Yoga
- Vyatipata
- until 9:44 PM
- then Variyana
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 11:49 AM
- then Kaulava until 12:50 AM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 7:45 PM
- sets 5:36 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:39 AM
- Kāla Loss 5:39 AM – 7:19 AM
- Śubha Good 7:19 AM – 8:58 AM
- Roga Illness 8:58 AM – 10:38 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:38 AM – 12:18 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:18 PM – 1:57 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:57 PM – 3:37 PM
- Amṛta Best 3:37 PM – 5:17 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:17 PM – 6:56 PM
- Night from 6:56 PM
- Lābha Gain 6:56 PM – 8:17 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:17 PM – 9:37 PM
- Śubha Good 9:37 PM – 10:57 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:57 PM – 12:17 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:17 AM – 1:38 AM
- Roga Illness 1:38 AM – 2:58 AM
- Kāla Loss 2:58 AM – 4:18 AM
- Lābha Gain 4:18 AM – 5:38 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:13 AM – 4:56 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:51 AM – 12:44 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 5:39 AM – 7:19 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 8:58 AM – 10:38 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:57 PM – 3:37 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.