12
May 2026
Mangalavara
Sunrise
5:32 AM
Sunset
7:02 PM
Sunrise
5:31 AM 13 May
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Dashami
- until 2:52 PM
- then Krishna Ekadashi
- Nakṣatra
- Purva Bhadrapada
- until 1:17 AM
- then Uttara Bhadrapada
- Yoga
- Vaidhriti
- until 11:19 PM
- then Vishkumbha
- Karaṇa
- Vishti
- until 2:52 PM
- then Bava until 2:17 AM
- then Balava
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 2:17 AM
- sets 2:21 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:32 AM
- Roga Illness 5:32 AM – 7:13 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:13 AM – 8:54 AM
- Cala Neutral 8:54 AM – 10:36 AM
- Lābha Gain 10:36 AM – 12:17 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:17 PM – 1:58 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:58 PM – 3:40 PM
- Śubha Good 3:40 PM – 5:21 PM
- Roga Illness 5:21 PM – 7:02 PM
- Night from 7:02 PM
- Kāla Loss 7:02 PM – 8:21 PM
- Lābha Gain 8:21 PM – 9:40 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:40 PM – 10:58 PM
- Śubha Good 10:58 PM – 12:17 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:17 AM – 1:35 AM
- Cala Neutral 1:35 AM – 2:54 AM
- Roga Illness 2:54 AM – 4:12 AM
- Kāla Loss 4:12 AM – 5:31 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:08 AM – 4:50 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:50 AM – 12:44 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 8:54 AM – 10:36 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:17 PM – 1:58 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 3:40 PM – 5:21 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.