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March 2028
Shanivara
Sunrise
6:26 AM
Sunset
6:31 PM
Sunrise
6:25 AM 19 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Ashtami
- until 5:30 PM
- then Krishna Navami
- Nakṣatra
- Mula
- until 11:43 PM
- then Purva Ashadha
- Yoga
- Vyatipata
- until 9:45 PM
- then Variyana
- Karaṇa
- Kaulava
- until 5:30 PM
- then Taitila until 6:19 AM
- then Gara
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 1:23 AM
- sets 11:39 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:26 AM
- Kāla Loss 6:26 AM – 7:57 AM
- Śubha Good 7:57 AM – 9:27 AM
- Roga Illness 9:27 AM – 10:58 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:58 AM – 12:29 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:29 PM – 1:59 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
- Amṛta Best 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:00 PM – 6:31 PM
- Night from 6:31 PM
- Lābha Gain 6:31 PM – 8:00 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:00 PM – 9:29 PM
- Śubha Good 9:29 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 – 3:27 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:27 AM – 4:56 AM
- Lābha Gain 4:56 AM – 6:25 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:51 AM – 5:39 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:04 PM – 12:53 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 6:26 AM – 7:57 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 – 10:58 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 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.