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December 2026
Shanivara
- Margashirsha Maas day 26 of 30
Sunrise
7:08 AM
Sunset
5:27 PM
Sunrise
7:08 AM 20 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Dashami
- until 10:09 PM
- then Shukla Ekadashi
- Nakṣatra
- Revati
- until 3:58 PM
- then Ashwini
- Yoga
- Variyana
- until 10:35 AM
- then Parigha
- Karaṇa
- Taitila
- until 10:48 AM
- then Gara until 10:09 PM
- then Vanija
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 1:18 PM
- sets 1:46 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:08 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:08 AM – 8:25 AM
- Śubha Good 8:25 AM – 9:43 AM
- Roga Illness 9:43 AM – 11:00 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 11:00 AM – 12:18 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:18 PM – 1:35 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:35 PM – 2:52 PM
- Amṛta Best 2:52 PM – 4:10 PM
- Kāla Loss 4:10 PM – 5:27 PM
- Night from 5:27 PM
- Lābha Gain 5:27 PM – 7:10 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:10 PM – 8:53 PM
- Śubha Good 8:53 PM – 10:35 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:35 PM – 12:18 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:18 AM – 2:01 AM
- Roga Illness 2:01 AM – 3:43 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:43 AM – 5:26 AM
- Lābha Gain 5:26 AM – 7:08 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:18 AM – 6:13 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:57 AM – 12:38 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 7:08 AM – 8:25 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 9:43 AM – 11:00 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:35 PM – 2:52 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.