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September 2026
Shukravara
- Bhadrapada Maas day 8 of 30
- Janmashtami
Sunrise
6:00 AM
Sunset
6:39 PM
Sunrise
6:01 AM 5 Sep
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Ashtami
- until 12:14 AM
- then Krishna Navami
- Nakṣatra
- Rohini
- until 11:04 PM
- then Mrigashira
- Yoga
- Harshana
- until 3:44 PM
- then Vajra
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 1:21 PM
- then Kaulava until 12:14 AM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Shukravara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 11:23 PM
- sets 1:09 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:00 AM
- Cala Neutral 6:00 AM – 7:35 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:35 AM – 9:10 AM
- Amṛta Best 9:10 AM – 10:45 AM
- Kāla Loss 10:45 AM – 12:20 PM
- Śubha Good 12:20 PM – 1:55 PM
- Roga Illness 1:55 PM – 3:30 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 3:30 PM – 5:04 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:04 PM – 6:39 PM
- Night from 6:39 PM
- Roga Illness 6:39 PM – 8:05 PM
- Kāla Loss 8:05 PM – 9:30 PM
- Lābha Gain 9:30 PM – 10:55 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:55 PM – 12:20 AM
- Śubha Good 12:20 AM – 1:45 AM
- Amṛta Best 1:45 AM – 3:10 AM
- Cala Neutral 3:10 AM – 4:36 AM
- Roga Illness 4:36 AM – 6:01 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:30 AM – 5:15 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:54 AM – 12:45 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 7:35 AM – 9:10 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 10:45 AM – 12:20 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 3:30 PM – 5:04 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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.