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Pausha

Shukla Pakṣa, Ashtami

Vikrama 2085

New Delhi

24

December 2028

Ravivara

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Tithi Ashtami Nakṣatra Uttara Bhadrapada Yoga Variyana Karaṇa Bava Choghaḍiyā © OccultGuide 2026
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Sunrise

7:11 AM

Sunset

5:30 PM

Sunrise

7:11 AM 25 Dec

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Nakṣatra
Yoga
Karaṇa
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The five aṅgas

Tithi
Shukla Ashtami
until 4:30 PM
then Shukla Navami
Nakṣatra
Uttara Bhadrapada
until 8:04 PM
then Revati
Yoga
Variyana
until 4:01 AM
then Parigha
Karaṇa
Bava
until 4:30 PM
then Balava until 5:44 AM
then Kaulava
Vāra
Ravivara
sunrise to sunrise
Moonrise & moonset
12:09 PM
sets 12:16 AM

Choghaḍiyā

  • Daytime from 7:11 AM
  • Udvega Anxiety 7:11 AM – 8:28 AM
  • Cala Neutral 8:28 AM – 9:46 AM
  • Lābha Gain 9:46 AM – 11:03 AM
  • Amṛta Best 11:03 AM – 12:20 PM
  • Kāla Loss 12:20 PM – 1:38 PM
  • Śubha Good 1:38 PM – 2:55 PM
  • Roga Illness 2:55 PM – 4:13 PM
  • Udvega Anxiety 4:13 PM – 5:30 PM
  • Night from 5:30 PM
  • Śubha Good 5:30 PM – 7:13 PM
  • Amṛta Best 7:13 PM – 8:55 PM
  • Cala Neutral 8:55 PM – 10:38 PM
  • Roga Illness 10:38 PM – 12:21 AM
  • Kāla Loss 12:21 AM – 2:03 AM
  • Lābha Gain 2:03 AM – 3:46 AM
  • Udvega Anxiety 3:46 AM – 5:28 AM
  • Śubha Good 5:28 AM – 7:11 AM

Periods of the day

Auspicious

  • Brāhma muhūrta 5:21 AM – 6:16 AM

    The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.

  • Abhijit muhūrta 12:00 PM – 12:41 PM

    Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.

Inauspicious

  • Yamagaṇḍa 12:20 PM – 1:38 PM

    Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.

  • Gulika kāla 2:55 PM – 4:13 PM

    Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.

  • Rāhu kāla 4:13 PM – 5:30 PM

    Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.

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.