15
December 2028
Shukravara
Sunrise
7:06 AM
Sunset
5:26 PM
Sunrise
7:07 AM 16 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Chaturdashi
- until 9:01 AM
- then Krishna Amavasya
- Nakṣatra
- Anuradha
- until 7:43 AM
- then Jyeshtha until 6:56 AM
- then Mula
- Yoga
- Dhriti
- until 8:44 AM
- then Shula until 6:21 AM
- then Ganda
- Karaṇa
- Shakuni
- until 9:01 AM
- then Chatushpada until 8:15 PM
- then Naga
- Vāra
- Shukravara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 6:15 AM
- sets 4:41 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:06 AM
- Cala Neutral 7:06 AM – 8:23 AM
- Lābha Gain 8:23 AM – 9:41 AM
- Amṛta Best 9:41 AM – 10:58 AM
- Kāla Loss 10:58 AM – 12:16 PM
- Śubha Good 12:16 PM – 1:33 PM
- Roga Illness 1:33 PM – 2:51 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 2:51 PM – 4:08 PM
- Cala Neutral 4:08 PM – 5:26 PM
- Night from 5:26 PM
- Roga Illness 5:26 PM – 7:09 PM
- Kāla Loss 7:09 PM – 8:51 PM
- Lābha Gain 8:51 PM – 10:34 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 10:34 PM – 12:16 AM
- Śubha Good 12:16 AM – 1:59 AM
- Amṛta Best 1:59 AM – 3:41 AM
- Cala Neutral 3:41 AM – 5:24 AM
- Roga Illness 5:24 AM – 7:07 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:17 AM – 6:11 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:55 AM – 12:37 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 8:23 AM – 9:41 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 10:58 AM – 12:16 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 2:51 PM – 4:08 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 21 Jul 2029 to 15 Nov 2029, 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.