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October 2026
Somavara
Sunrise
6:20 AM
Sunset
5:55 PM
Sunrise
6:20 AM 13 Oct
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Dwitiya
- until 10:13 PM
- then Shukla Tritiya
- Nakṣatra
- Swati
- until 11:52 PM
- then Vishakha
- Yoga
- Vishkumbha
- until 8:32 PM
- then Priti
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 9:48 AM
- then Kaulava until 10:13 PM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 7:46 AM
- sets 6:40 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:20 AM
- Amṛta Best 6:20 AM – 7:46 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:46 AM – 9:13 AM
- Śubha Good 9:13 AM – 10:40 AM
- Roga Illness 10:40 AM – 12:07 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:07 PM – 1:34 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:34 PM – 3:01 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:01 PM – 4:28 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:28 PM – 5:55 PM
- Night from 5:55 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:55 PM – 7:28 PM
- Roga Illness 7:28 PM – 9:01 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:01 PM – 10:34 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:34 PM – 12:07 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:07 AM – 1:41 AM
- Śubha Good 1:41 AM – 3:14 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:14 AM – 4:47 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:47 AM – 6:20 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:40 AM – 5:30 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:44 AM – 12:30 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:46 AM – 9:13 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:40 AM – 12:07 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:34 PM – 3:01 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
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.