14
December 2026
Somavara
- Margashirsha Maas day 21 of 30
- Panchami
Sunrise
7:05 AM
Sunset
5:25 PM
Sunrise
7:06 AM 15 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Panchami
- until 7:16 PM
- then Shukla Shashthi
- Nakṣatra
- Shravana
- until 9:12 AM
- then Dhanishta
- Yoga
- Vyaghata
- until 1:04 PM
- then Harshana
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 7:16 PM
- then Kaulava
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 10:48 AM
- sets 10:02 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:05 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:05 AM – 8:23 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:23 AM – 9:40 AM
- Śubha Good 9:40 AM – 10:58 AM
- Roga Illness 10:58 AM – 12:15 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:15 PM – 1:33 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:33 PM – 2:50 PM
- Lābha Gain 2:50 PM – 4:08 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:08 PM – 5:25 PM
- Night from 5:25 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:25 PM – 7:08 PM
- Roga Illness 7:08 PM – 8:50 PM
- Kāla Loss 8:50 PM – 10:33 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:33 PM – 12:16 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:16 AM – 1:58 AM
- Śubha Good 1:58 AM – 3:41 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:41 AM – 5:23 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:23 AM – 7:06 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:16 AM – 6:10 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:55 AM – 12:36 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 8:23 AM – 9:40 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:58 AM – 12:15 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:33 PM – 2:50 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
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.