16
May 2028
Mangalavara
Sunrise
5:29 AM
Sunset
7:05 PM
Sunrise
5:28 AM 17 May
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Ashtami
- until 5:27 AM
- then Krishna Navami
- Nakṣatra
- Dhanishta
- until 2:01 AM
- then Shatabhisha
- Yoga
- Brahma
- until 3:35 PM
- then Indra
- Karaṇa
- Balava
- until 4:13 PM
- then Kaulava until 5:27 AM
- then Taitila
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 12:36 AM
- sets 11:59 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:29 AM
- Roga Illness 5:29 AM – 7:11 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:11 AM – 8:53 AM
- Cala Neutral 8:53 AM – 10:35 AM
- Lābha Gain 10:35 AM – 12:17 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:17 PM – 1:59 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:59 PM – 3:41 PM
- Śubha Good 3:41 PM – 5:23 PM
- Roga Illness 5:23 PM – 7:05 PM
- Night from 7:05 PM
- Kāla Loss 7:05 PM – 8:23 PM
- Lābha Gain 8:23 PM – 9:41 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:41 PM – 10:59 PM
- Śubha Good 10:59 PM – 12:17 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:17 AM – 1:35 AM
- Cala Neutral 1:35 AM – 2:53 AM
- Roga Illness 2:53 AM – 4:11 AM
- Kāla Loss 4:11 AM – 5:28 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:06 AM – 4:47 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:50 AM – 12:44 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 8:53 AM – 10:35 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:17 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 3:41 PM – 5:23 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.