17
October 2028
Mangalavara
- Kartik Maas day 15 of 31
- Diwali
- Sankranti
- Tara Chaturdashi
Sunrise
6:23 AM
Sunset
5:49 PM
Sunrise
6:24 AM 18 Oct
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Chaturdashi
- until 12:05 PM
- then Krishna Amavasya
- Nakṣatra
- Hasta
- until 8:16 PM
- then Chitra
- Yoga
- Indra
- until 9:38 AM
- then Vaidhriti until 5:27 AM
- then Vishkumbha
- Karaṇa
- Shakuni
- until 12:05 PM
- then Chatushpada until 10:15 PM
- then Naga
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 5:16 AM
- sets 5:00 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:23 AM
- Roga Illness 6:23 AM – 7:49 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:49 AM – 9:14 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:14 AM – 10:40 AM
- Lābha Gain 10:40 AM – 12:06 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:06 PM – 1:32 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:32 PM – 2:57 PM
- Śubha Good 2:57 PM – 4:23 PM
- Roga Illness 4:23 PM – 5:49 PM
- Night from 5:49 PM
- Kāla Loss 5:49 PM – 7:23 PM
- Lābha Gain 7:23 PM – 8:58 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 8:58 PM – 10:32 PM
- Śubha Good 10:32 PM – 12:06 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:06 AM – 1:41 AM
- Cala Neutral 1:41 AM – 3:15 AM
- Roga Illness 3:15 AM – 4:49 AM
- Kāla Loss 4:49 AM – 6:24 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:43 AM – 5:33 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:43 AM – 12:29 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 9:14 AM – 10:40 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:06 PM – 1:32 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 2:57 PM – 4:23 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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.