17
March 2028
Shukravara
Sunrise
6:27 AM
Sunset
6:30 PM
Sunrise
6:26 AM 18 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Saptami
- until 4:26 PM
- then Krishna Ashtami
- Nakṣatra
- Jyeshtha
- until 9:55 PM
- then Mula
- Yoga
- Siddhi
- until 9:53 PM
- then Vyatipata
- Karaṇa
- Bava
- until 4:26 PM
- then Balava until 4:52 AM
- then Kaulava
- Vāra
- Shukravara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 12:27 AM
- sets 10:44 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:27 AM
- Cala Neutral 6:27 AM – 7:58 AM
- Lābha Gain 7:58 AM – 9:28 AM
- Amṛta Best 9:28 AM – 10:59 AM
- Kāla Loss 10:59 AM – 12:29 PM
- Śubha Good 12:29 PM – 1:59 PM
- Roga Illness 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
- Night from 6:30 PM
- Roga Illness 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
- Kāla Loss 8:00 PM – 9:29 PM
- Lābha Gain 9:29 PM – 10:59 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:59 PM – 12:28 AM
- Śubha Good 12:28 AM – 1:58 AM
- Amṛta Best 1:58 AM – 3:27 AM
- Cala Neutral 3:27 AM – 4:57 AM
- Roga Illness 4:57 AM – 6:26 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:52 AM – 5:40 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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Gulika kāla 7:58 AM – 9:28 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 10:59 AM – 12:29 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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.