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August 2026
Mangalavara
- Savan day 21 of 31
Sunrise
5:51 AM
Sunset
6:58 PM
Sunrise
5:52 AM 19 Aug
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Shashthi
- until 5:51 PM
- then Shukla Saptami
- Nakṣatra
- Swati
- until 6:47 AM
- Yoga
- Shukla
- until 3:23 AM
- then Brahma
- Karaṇa
- Taitila
- until 5:51 PM
- then Gara
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 11:15 AM
- sets 10:10 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:51 AM
- Roga Illness 5:51 AM – 7:30 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:30 AM – 9:08 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:08 AM – 10:46 AM
- Lābha Gain 10:46 AM – 12:25 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:25 PM – 2:03 PM
- Kāla Loss 2:03 PM – 3:41 PM
- Śubha Good 3:41 PM – 5:19 PM
- Roga Illness 5:19 PM – 6:58 PM
- Night from 6:58 PM
- Kāla Loss 6:58 PM – 8:19 PM
- Lābha Gain 8:19 PM – 9:41 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:41 PM – 11:03 PM
- Śubha Good 11:03 PM – 12:25 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:25 AM – 1:47 AM
- Cala Neutral 1:47 AM – 3:08 AM
- Roga Illness 3:08 AM – 4:30 AM
- Kāla Loss 4:30 AM – 5:52 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:24 AM – 5:08 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:58 AM – 12:51 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 9:08 AM – 10:46 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:25 PM – 2:03 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 3:41 PM – 5:19 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
Cāturmāsya — in progress, 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.