16
May 2026
Shanivara
Sunrise
5:29 AM
Sunset
7:05 PM
Sunrise
5:29 AM 17 May
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Amavasya
- until 1:31 AM
- then Shukla Pratipada
- Nakṣatra
- Bharani
- until 5:30 PM
- then Krittika
- Yoga
- Saubhagya
- until 10:25 AM
- then Shobhana
- Karaṇa
- Chatushpada
- until 3:23 PM
- then Naga until 1:31 AM
- then Kimstughna
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 4:36 AM
- sets 6:48 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:29 AM
- Kāla Loss 5:29 AM – 7:11 AM
- Śubha Good 7:11 AM – 8:53 AM
- Roga Illness 8:53 AM – 10:35 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:35 AM – 12:17 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:17 PM – 1:59 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:59 PM – 3:41 PM
- Amṛta Best 3:41 PM – 5:23 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:23 PM – 7:05 PM
- Night from 7:05 PM
- Lābha Gain 7:05 PM – 8:23 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:23 PM – 9:41 PM
- Śubha Good 9:41 PM – 10:59 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:59 PM – 12:17 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:17 AM – 1:35 AM
- Roga Illness 1:35 AM – 2:53 AM
- Kāla Loss 2:53 AM – 4:11 AM
- Lābha Gain 4:11 AM – 5:29 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:06 AM – 4:48 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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Gulika kāla 5:29 AM – 7:11 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 8:53 AM – 10:35 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:59 PM – 3:41 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.