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March 2027
Shanivara
Sunrise
6:25 AM
Sunset
6:32 PM
Sunrise
6:24 AM 21 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Trayodashi
- until 8:45 PM
- then Shukla Chaturdashi
- Nakṣatra
- Magha
- until 11:44 PM
- then Purva Phalguni
- Yoga
- Dhriti
- until 8:05 PM
- then Shula
- Karaṇa
- Kaulava
- until 10:01 AM
- then Taitila until 8:45 PM
- then Gara
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 4:29 PM
- sets 4:51 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:25 AM
- Kāla Loss 6:25 AM – 7:56 AM
- Śubha Good 7:56 AM – 9:27 AM
- Roga Illness 9:27 AM – 10:57 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:57 AM – 12:28 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:28 PM – 1:59 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
- Amṛta Best 3:30 PM – 5:01 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:01 PM – 6:32 PM
- Night from 6:32 PM
- Lābha Gain 6:32 PM – 8:01 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:01 PM – 9:30 PM
- Śubha Good 9:30 PM – 10:59 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:59 PM – 12:28 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:28 AM – 1:57 AM
- Roga Illness 1:57 AM – 3:26 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:26 AM – 4:55 AM
- Lābha Gain 4:55 AM – 6:24 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:50 AM – 5:37 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:04 PM – 12:52 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 6:25 AM – 7:56 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 9:27 AM – 10:57 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:59 PM – 3:30 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.