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March 2034
Somavara
Sunrise
6:25 AM
Sunset
6:32 PM
Sunrise
6:23 AM 21 Mar
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Krishna Amavasya
- until 3:44 PM
- then Shukla Pratipada
- Nakṣatra
- Purva Bhadrapada
- until 12:10 PM
- then Uttara Bhadrapada
- Yoga
- Shubha
- until 9:03 AM
- then Shukla until 5:12 AM
- then Brahma
- Karaṇa
- Naga
- until 3:44 PM
- then Kimstughna until 2:06 AM
- then Bava
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 6:11 AM
- sets 6:35 PM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 6:25 AM
- Amṛta Best 6:25 AM – 7:55 AM
- Kāla Loss 7:55 AM – 9:26 AM
- Śubha Good 9:26 AM – 10:57 AM
- Roga Illness 10:57 AM – 12:28 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:28 PM – 1:59 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:30 PM – 5:01 PM
- Amṛta Best 5:01 PM – 6:32 PM
- Night from 6:32 PM
- Cala Neutral 6:32 PM – 8:01 PM
- Roga Illness 8:01 PM – 9:30 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:30 PM – 10:59 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:59 PM – 12:28 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:28 AM – 1:57 AM
- Śubha Good 1:57 AM – 3:25 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:25 AM – 4:54 AM
- Cala Neutral 4:54 AM – 6:23 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 4:49 AM – 5:37 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:04 PM – 12:52 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 7:55 AM – 9:26 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 10:57 AM – 12:28 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:59 PM – 3:30 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 26 Jul 2034 to 21 Nov 2034, 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.