18
July 2026
Shanivara
- Gupt Navratri day 4 of 8
- Panchami
Sunrise
5:34 AM
Sunset
7:20 PM
Sunrise
5:35 AM 19 Jul
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Panchami
- until 3:43 AM
- then Shukla Shashthi
- Nakṣatra
- Purva Phalguni
- until 6:00 PM
- then Uttara Phalguni
- Yoga
- Variyana
- until 8:45 PM
- then Parigha
- Karaṇa
- Bava
- until 4:07 PM
- then Balava until 3:43 AM
- then Kaulava
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 9:35 AM
- sets 10:08 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:34 AM
- Kāla Loss 5:34 AM – 7:17 AM
- Śubha Good 7:17 AM – 9:01 AM
- Roga Illness 9:01 AM – 10:44 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:44 AM – 12:27 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:27 PM – 2:10 PM
- Lābha Gain 2:10 PM – 3:53 PM
- Amṛta Best 3:53 PM – 5:36 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:36 PM – 7:20 PM
- Night from 7:20 PM
- Lābha Gain 7:20 PM – 8:36 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:36 PM – 9:53 PM
- Śubha Good 9:53 PM – 11:10 PM
- Amṛta Best 11:10 PM – 12:27 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:27 AM – 1:44 AM
- Roga Illness 1:44 AM – 3:01 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:01 AM – 4:18 AM
- Lābha Gain 4:18 AM – 5:35 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:12 AM – 4:53 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:59 AM – 12:54 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 5:34 AM – 7:17 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 9:01 AM – 10:44 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 2:10 PM – 3:53 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.