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December 2026
Mangalavara
- Margashirsha Maas day 8 of 30
- Kaal Bhairav Ashtami
Sunrise
6:56 AM
Sunset
5:23 PM
Sunrise
6:57 AM 2 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Ashtami
- until 11:14 PM
- then Krishna Navami
- Nakṣatra
- Magha
- until 9:00 AM
- then Purva Phalguni
- Yoga
- Vaidhriti
- until 12:15 PM
- then Vishkumbha
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 11:38 AM
- then Kaulava until 11:14 PM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- —
- sets 12:37 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:56 AM
- Roga Illness 6:56 AM – 8:14 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:14 AM – 9:33 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:33 AM – 10:51 AM
- Lābha Gain 10:51 AM – 12:10 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:10 PM – 1:28 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:28 PM – 2:47 PM
- Śubha Good 2:47 PM – 4:05 PM
- Roga Illness 4:05 PM – 5:23 PM
- Night from 5:23 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:23 PM – 7:05 PM
- Lābha Gain 7:05 PM – 8:47 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:47 PM – 10:28 PM
- Śubha Good 10:28 PM – 12:10 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:10 AM – 1:52 AM
- Cala Neutral 1:52 AM – 3:33 AM
- Roga Illness 3:33 AM – 5:15 AM
- Kāla Loss 5:15 AM – 6:57 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:07 AM – 6:02 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:49 AM – 12:31 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 9:33 AM – 10:51 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:10 PM – 1:28 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 2:47 PM – 4:05 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 13 Jul 2027 to 9 Nov 2027, 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.