12
December 2026
Shanivara
- Margashirsha Maas day 19 of 30
Sunrise
7:04 AM
Sunset
5:25 PM
Sunrise
7:04 AM 13 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Tritiya
- until 2:06 PM
- then Shukla Chaturthi
- Nakṣatra
- Uttara Ashadha
- until 6:12 AM
- then Shravana
- Yoga
- Vriddhi
- until 11:17 AM
- then Dhruva
- Karaṇa
- Gara
- until 2:06 PM
- then Vanija until 3:28 AM
- then Vishti
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 9:39 AM
- sets 8:11 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:04 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:04 AM – 8:21 AM
- Śubha Good 8:21 AM – 9:39 AM
- Roga Illness 9:39 AM – 10:57 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:57 AM – 12:14 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:14 PM – 1:32 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:32 PM – 2:50 PM
- Amṛta Best 2:50 PM – 4:07 PM
- Kāla Loss 4:07 PM – 5:25 PM
- Night from 5:25 PM
- Lābha Gain 5:25 PM – 7:07 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:07 PM – 8:50 PM
- Śubha Good 8:50 PM – 10:32 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:32 PM – 12:15 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:15 AM – 1:57 AM
- Roga Illness 1:57 AM – 3:39 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:39 AM – 5:22 AM
- Lābha Gain 5:22 AM – 7:04 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:14 AM – 6:09 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:54 AM – 12:35 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 7:04 AM – 8:21 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 9:39 AM – 10:57 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:32 PM – 2:50 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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.