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August 2028
Somavara
- Bhadrapada Maas day 17 of 30
Sunrise
5:53 AM
Sunset
6:54 PM
Sunrise
5:54 AM 22 Aug
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Pratipada
- until 12:29 PM
- then Shukla Dwitiya
- Nakṣatra
- Magha
- until 7:30 AM
- then Purva Phalguni until 4:34 AM
- then Uttara Phalguni
- Yoga
- Shiva
- until 8:55 PM
- then Siddha
- Karaṇa
- Bava
- until 12:29 PM
- then Balava until 10:36 PM
- then Kaulava
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 6:39 AM
- sets 7:22 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 5:53 AM
- Amṛta Best 5:53 AM – 7:31 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:31 AM – 9:09 AM
- Śubha Good 9:09 AM – 10:46 AM
- Roga Illness 10:46 AM – 12:24 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:24 PM – 2:01 PM
- Cala Neutral 2:01 PM – 3:39 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:39 PM – 5:17 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:17 PM – 6:54 PM
- Night from 6:54 PM
- Cala Neutral 6:54 PM – 8:17 PM
- Roga Illness 8:17 PM – 9:39 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:39 PM – 11:02 PM
- Lābha Gain 11:02 PM – 12:24 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:24 AM – 1:46 AM
- Śubha Good 1:46 AM – 3:09 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:09 AM – 4:31 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:31 AM – 5:54 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:26 AM – 5:09 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:58 AM – 12:50 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:31 AM – 9:09 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:46 AM – 12:24 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 2:01 PM – 3:39 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
Cāturmāsya — in progress, 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.