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January 2028
Mangalavara
Sunrise
7:14 AM
Sunset
5:48 PM
Sunrise
7:14 AM 19 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Saptami
- until 1:32 PM
- then Krishna Ashtami
- Nakṣatra
- Chitra
- until 5:43 AM
- then Swati
- Yoga
- Sukarma
- until 5:23 PM
- then Dhriti
- Karaṇa
- Bava
- until 1:32 PM
- then Balava until 12:55 AM
- then Kaulava
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- —
- sets 11:10 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:14 AM
- Roga Illness 7:14 AM – 8:33 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:33 AM – 9:52 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:52 AM – 11:12 AM
- Lābha Gain 11:12 AM – 12:31 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:31 PM – 1:50 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:50 PM – 3:09 PM
- Śubha Good 3:09 PM – 4:28 PM
- Roga Illness 4:28 PM – 5:48 PM
- Night from 5:48 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:48 PM – 7:28 PM
- Lābha Gain 7:28 PM – 9:09 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:09 PM – 10:50 PM
- Śubha Good 10:50 PM – 12:31 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:31 AM – 2:12 AM
- Cala Neutral 2:12 AM – 3:52 AM
- Roga Illness 3:52 AM – 5:33 AM
- Kāla Loss 5:33 AM – 7:14 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:26 AM – 6:20 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:10 PM – 12:52 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 9:52 AM – 11:12 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:31 PM – 1:50 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 3:09 PM – 4:28 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 2 Jul 2028 to 28 Oct 2028, 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.