16
March 2027
Mangalavara
Sunrise
6:29 AM
Sunset
6:29 PM
Sunrise
6:28 AM 17 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Ashtami
- until 8:54 AM
- then Shukla Navami
- Nakṣatra
- Mrigashira
- until 8:13 AM
- then Ardra
- Yoga
- Ayushman
- until 11:50 AM
- then Saubhagya
- Karaṇa
- Bava
- until 8:54 AM
- then Balava until 7:51 PM
- then Kaulava
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 11:56 AM
- sets 1:40 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:29 AM
- Roga Illness 6:29 AM – 7:59 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:59 AM – 9:29 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:29 AM – 10:59 AM
- Lābha Gain 10:59 AM – 12:29 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:29 PM – 1:59 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:59 PM – 3:29 PM
- Śubha Good 3:29 PM – 4:59 PM
- Roga Illness 4:59 PM – 6:29 PM
- Night from 6:29 PM
- Kāla Loss 6:29 PM – 7:59 PM
- Lābha Gain 7:59 PM – 9:29 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:29 PM – 10:59 PM
- Śubha Good 10:59 PM – 12:29 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:29 AM – 1:59 AM
- Cala Neutral 1:59 AM – 3:29 AM
- Roga Illness 3:29 AM – 4:58 AM
- Kāla Loss 4:58 AM – 6:28 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:53 AM – 5:41 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:05 PM – 12:53 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 9:29 AM – 10:59 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:29 PM – 1:59 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 3:29 PM – 4:59 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.