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October 2026
Shanivara
- Pitr Paksha day 7 of 14
- Kuldevi Saptami
Sunrise
6:15 AM
Sunset
6:05 PM
Sunrise
6:15 AM 4 Oct
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Saptami
- until 8:00 AM
- then Krishna Ashtami until 5:52 AM
- then Krishna Navami
- Nakṣatra
- Ardra
- until 1:29 AM
- then Punarvasu
- Yoga
- Variyana
- until 3:21 PM
- then Parigha
- Karaṇa
- Bava
- until 8:00 AM
- then Balava until 6:55 PM
- then Kaulava until 5:52 AM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 11:27 PM
- sets 1:09 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:15 AM
- Kāla Loss 6:15 AM – 7:43 AM
- Śubha Good 7:43 AM – 9:12 AM
- Roga Illness 9:12 AM – 10:41 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:41 AM – 12:10 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:10 PM – 1:39 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:39 PM – 3:07 PM
- Amṛta Best 3:07 PM – 4:36 PM
- Kāla Loss 4:36 PM – 6:05 PM
- Night from 6:05 PM
- Lābha Gain 6:05 PM – 7:36 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:36 PM – 9:07 PM
- Śubha Good 9:07 PM – 10:39 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:39 PM – 12:10 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:10 AM – 1:41 AM
- Roga Illness 1:41 AM – 3:13 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:13 AM – 4:44 AM
- Lābha Gain 4:44 AM – 6:15 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:37 AM – 5:26 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:46 AM – 12:33 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 6:15 AM – 7:43 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 9:12 AM – 10:41 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:39 PM – 3:07 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.