🪷 Muhūrta Table · Indore, Madhya Pradesh · 2026-12-09

Each window with the rule that makes it and its source · on the Sūrya-Siddhānta's sunrise and sunset

कालः कलयतामहम्
"Among reckoners I am Time." — BG 10.30

Windows of the Day, with their Sources

Where a source characterises a window its words are quoted; no window is labelled here.

WindowStartEndDurationRule · Source
Brahma Muhūrta ब्रह्म मुहूर्त05:1706:1153.5 minthe 14th fifteenth of the night ending at this sunrise · Manusmṛti 4.92; Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Sūtra 2.1, with Aruṇadatta and Hemādri
  • Manusmṛti 4.92: "brāhme muhūrte budhyeta" (one should wake in the brāhma muhūrta and reflect on dharma and the Veda)
  • Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Sūtra 2.1: "brāhme muhūrta uttiṣṭhet svastho rakṣārtham āyuṣaḥ" (the healthy should rise then, to protect life)
  • Aruṇadatta: "rātreś caturdaśo muhūrto brāhmo muhūrtaḥ"; Hemādri: "rātreś copāntyo muhūrto brāhmaḥ" (wording through a journal article)
Manu and Vāgbhaṭa name it; the 14th of the night is the commentators' definition
Abhijit Muhūrta अभिजित् मुहूर्त12:0212:4442.5 minthe 8th fifteenth of the day, around midday · Ṭikaṇikayātrā 3.7-8; Muhūrta-gaṇapati 83-86; Nārada-saṃhitā 9.4-5
  • Ṭikaṇikayātrā 3.8: "tena yānam apahāya dakṣiṇāṃ sarvadikṣv abhijit praśasyate" (under Abhijit, travel in every direction but the south is praised)
  • Muhūrta-gaṇapati 83-84: in Abhijit, even where faults exist, one may do all auspicious work except travel to the south
  • Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa 6.4.3 calls the midday muhūrta Vijaya ("yukto muhūrto vijayaḥ prāpto madhyaṃ divākaraḥ")
Wednesday: Nārada-saṃhitā 9.4-5 and Muhūrta-gaṇapati 85-86 except Abhijit on this weekday
Godhūli गोधूलि17:3617:4812 min15 pala before and after the half-set Sun (the text's sunset is the Sun's centre on the horizon) · Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Vivāha 38 (citing the Jyotirnibandha); Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Vivāha 6.100-101
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi 6.100: "godhūliḥ sā munibhir uditā sarvakāryeṣu praśastā" (the sages declared godhūli praised for all works)
  • Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Vivāha 38: a lagna for marriage when no other good lagna is available
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54: for travel, godhūli except toward the west
MC 6.101 places the instant by season (in hemanta the rayless disk, in the hot season the half-set Sun, in the rains the Sun fully set); the half-set form is given
Niśītha निशीथ23:5600:5053.5 minthe 8th fifteenth of the night: the middle of the night (not clock midnight) · Dharmasindhu; Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54
  • Dharmasindhu: niśītha is the middle of the night, finely the 8th muhūrta; the instant at which a tithi is taken for night observances
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54: for travel, niśītha except toward the north
Gulika Kālam गुलिक11:0312:2379.7 minSaturn's eighth of the day: part 4 of 8, counted from Mercury · Bṛhat-Parāśara-Horāśāstra ch. 3 (upagrahas)
  • Kālaprakāśikā ch. 34 (tr. N. P. Subramania Iyer, 1917): for harvest, trade, medical treatment and the study of the Vedas "Gulika has no evil force"; ch. 33 note: "Gulika is not considered inauspicious"
  • Phaladīpikā 25.20 (as a natal upagraha): Gulika acts like Saturn
BPHS uses these parts to fix the upagraha points; the 8th eighth has no lord
Yamaghaṇṭaka (Yamagaṇḍa) Kālam यमघण्टक08:2409:4479.7 minJupiter's eighth of the day: part 2 of 8, counted from Mercury · Bṛhat-Parāśara-Horāśāstra ch. 3 (upagrahas)
  • Kālaprakāśikā ch. 33: listed with Ardhapraharam and Kālan as periods to be set aside
  • Phaladīpikā 25.19-20 (as a natal upagraha): Yamakaṇṭaka acts like Jupiter, the strongest of the upagrahas at giving good
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi 1.37-39 counts a Yamaghaṇṭa among the faulty moments (duṣṭakṣaṇa), in sixteenths of the day: the second half of this eighth
BPHS uses these parts to fix the upagraha points; the 8th eighth has no lord
Rāhu Kālam राहु काल12:2313:4379.7 minpart 5 of the day's 8 (Sun 8, Mon 2, Tue 7, Wed 5, Thu 6, Fri 4, Sat 3) · South Indian almanac table (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala); no verse found in BPHS, Bṛhatsaṃhitā, Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Nārada-saṃhitā, Phaladīpikā, Dharmasindhu, Nirṇayasindhu or Praśna-mārga · regional convention
  • Uttara-kālāmṛta 2.29 (post-16th century; read in P. S. Sastri's English): not to bathe in the sea during it. The editor: "Standard texts have no mention of it."

15 Day-Muhūrtas (a fifteenth of the day each · Ṭikaṇikayātrā 3.2-3.4)

#Muhūrta (deity)StartEnd
1Śiva शिव07:0407:47
2Bhujaga भुजग07:4708:29
3Mitra मित्र08:2909:12
4Pitṛ पितृ09:1209:54
5Vasu वसु09:5410:37
6Jala जल10:3711:19
7Viśva विश्व11:1912:02
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि12:0212:44
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव12:4413:27
10Indra इन्द्र13:2714:09
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी14:0914:52
12Niśācara निशाचर14:5215:34
13Varuṇa वरुण15:3416:17
14Aryaman अर्यमन्16:1716:59
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि16:5917:42

Sunrise / Sunset Reference for Indore, Madhya Pradesh

Coordinates: 22.7196°N · 75.8577°E · Timezone: explicit fixed-offset record · UTC+5.5

Sunrise: 07:04 · Sunset: 17:42

Sources and Related Timing Tools

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📚 See Also

📖 References

  1. Muhūrta-Cintāmaṇi · Rāma Daivajña (16th c. CE) — Classical authority on the 15 day-muhūrtas · Rāhu-Kālam · Yamagaṇḍa · Gulika rules
  2. Bṛhat-Saṁhitā · Varāhamihira (~550 CE) — Earliest treatise on muhūrta-vidyā within jyotiṣa
  3. Sūrya-Siddhānta · sunrise/sunset computation — The astronomical engine behind every time-boundary calculation
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