21
May 2026
Guruvara
- Purushottam Maas day 5 of 30
- Panchami
Sunrise
5:27 AM
Sunset
7:08 PM
Sunrise
5:26 AM 22 May
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Panchami
- until 8:27 AM
- then Shukla Shashthi
- Nakṣatra
- Pushya
- until 2:49 AM
- then Ashlesha
- Yoga
- Ganda
- until 10:58 AM
- then Vriddhi
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 8:27 AM
- then Kaulava until 7:21 PM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Guruvara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 9:48 AM
- sets 11:57 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:27 AM
- Śubha Good 5:27 AM – 7:09 AM
- Roga Illness 7:09 AM – 8:52 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:52 AM – 10:35 AM
- Cala Neutral 10:35 AM – 12:17 PM
- Lābha Gain 12:17 PM – 2:00 PM
- Amṛta Best 2:00 PM – 3:43 PM
- Kāla Loss 3:43 PM – 5:25 PM
- Śubha Good 5:25 PM – 7:08 PM
- Night from 7:08 PM
- Amṛta Best 7:08 PM – 8:25 PM
- Cala Neutral 8:25 PM – 9:42 PM
- Roga Illness 9:42 PM – 11:00 PM
- Kāla Loss 11:00 PM – 12:17 AM
- Lābha Gain 12:17 AM – 1:34 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 1:34 AM – 2:52 AM
- Śubha Good 2:52 AM – 4:09 AM
- Amṛta Best 4:09 AM – 5:26 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:04 AM – 4:45 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; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 5:27 AM – 7:09 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 8:52 AM – 10:35 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 2:00 PM – 3:43 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.