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December 2031
Shanivara
- Margashirsha Maas day 23 of 31
- Kuldevi Saptami
Sunrise
7:08 AM
Sunset
5:28 PM
Sunrise
7:09 AM 21 Dec
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Saptami
- until 6:12 PM
- then Shukla Ashtami
- Nakṣatra
- Purva Bhadrapada
- until 3:18 AM
- then Uttara Bhadrapada
- Yoga
- Siddhi
- until 7:59 PM
- then Vyatipata
- Karaṇa
- Vanija
- until 6:12 PM
- then Vishti until 5:30 AM
- then Bava
- Vāra
- Shanivara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 11:39 AM
- sets —
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:08 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:08 AM – 8:26 AM
- Śubha Good 8:26 AM – 9:43 AM
- Roga Illness 9:43 AM – 11:01 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 11:01 AM – 12:18 PM
- Cala Neutral 12:18 PM – 1:35 PM
- Lābha Gain 1:35 PM – 2:53 PM
- Amṛta Best 2:53 PM – 4:10 PM
- Kāla Loss 4:10 PM – 5:28 PM
- Night from 5:28 PM
- Lābha Gain 5:28 PM – 7:10 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 7:10 PM – 8:53 PM
- Śubha Good 8:53 PM – 10:36 PM
- Amṛta Best 10:36 PM – 12:18 AM
- Cala Neutral 12:18 AM – 2:01 AM
- Roga Illness 2:01 AM – 3:44 AM
- Kāla Loss 3:44 AM – 5:26 AM
- Lābha Gain 5:26 AM – 7:09 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:19 AM – 6:14 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 11:57 AM – 12:39 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Gulika kāla 7:08 AM – 8:26 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 9:43 AM – 11:01 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 1:35 PM – 2:53 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 18 Jul 2032 to 12 Nov 2032, 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.