20
May 2026
Budhavara
- Purushottam Maas day 4 of 30
Sunrise
5:27 AM
Sunset
7:07 PM
Sunrise
5:27 AM 21 May
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Chaturthi
- until 11:07 AM
- then Shukla Panchami
- Nakṣatra
- Ardra
- until 6:12 AM
- then Punarvasu until 4:12 AM
- then Pushya
- Yoga
- Shula
- until 2:10 PM
- then Ganda
- Karaṇa
- Vishti
- until 11:07 AM
- then Bava until 9:42 PM
- then Balava
- Vāra
- Budhavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 8:38 AM
- sets 11:12 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:27 AM
- Lābha Gain 5:27 AM – 7:10 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:10 AM – 8:52 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:52 AM – 10:35 AM
- Śubha Good 10:35 AM – 12:17 PM
- Roga Illness 12:17 PM – 2:00 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 2:00 PM – 3:42 PM
- Cala Neutral 3:42 PM – 5:25 PM
- Lābha Gain 5:25 PM – 7:07 PM
- Night from 7:07 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:07 PM – 8:25 PM
- Śubha Good 8:25 PM – 9:42 PM
- Amṛta Best 9:42 PM – 11:00 PM
- Cala Neutral 11:00 PM – 12:17 AM
- Roga Illness 12:17 AM – 1:34 AM
- Kāla Loss 1:34 AM – 2:52 AM
- Lābha Gain 2:52 AM – 4:09 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 4:09 AM – 5:27 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:04 AM – 4:46 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:50 AM – 12:45 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods — but many traditions do not observe it on a Wednesday.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 7:10 AM – 8:52 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 10:35 AM – 12:17 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 12:17 PM – 2:00 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.