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March 2031
Mangalavara
Sunrise
6:27 AM
Sunset
6:31 PM
Sunrise
6:26 AM 19 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Dashami
- until 6:43 PM
- then Krishna Ekadashi
- Nakṣatra
- Purva Ashadha
- until 7:16 AM
- then Uttara Ashadha until 5:46 AM
- then Shravana
- Yoga
- Variyana
- until 7:51 AM
- then Parigha until 4:52 AM
- then Shiva
- Karaṇa
- Vanija
- until 7:49 AM
- then Vishti until 6:43 PM
- then Bava until 5:36 AM
- then Balava
- Vāra
- Mangalavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 2:39 AM
- sets 1:42 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:27 AM
- Roga Illness 6:27 AM – 7:58 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:58 AM – 9:28 AM
- Cala Neutral 9:28 AM – 10:58 AM
- Lābha Gain 10:58 AM – 12:29 PM
- Amṛta Best 12:29 PM – 1:59 PM
- Kāla Loss 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
- Śubha Good 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
- Roga Illness 5:00 PM – 6:31 PM
- Night from 6:31 PM
- Kāla Loss 6:31 PM – 8:00 PM
- Lābha Gain 8:00 PM – 9:29 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 9:29 PM – 10:59 PM
- Śubha Good 10:59 PM – 12:28 AM
- Amṛta Best 12:28 AM – 1:58 AM
- Cala Neutral 1:58 AM – 3:27 AM
- Roga Illness 3:27 AM – 4:57 AM
- Kāla Loss 4:57 AM – 6:26 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:52 AM – 5:39 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:05 PM – 12:53 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Yamagaṇḍa 9:28 AM – 10:58 AM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 12:29 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 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 30 Jun 2031 to 24 Nov 2031, 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.