🪷 Muhūrta Table · Kāśī Viśvanāth (in Vārāṇasī) · 2026-10-28

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 मुहूर्त04:3205:2351.2 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 मुहूर्त11:2812:1244.7 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 गोधूलि17:1917:3112 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 निशीथ23:2500:1651.3 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 गुलिक10:2611:5083.9 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 यमघण्टक07:3809:0283.9 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 काल11:5013:1483.9 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 शिव06:1406:59
2Bhujaga भुजग06:5907:44
3Mitra मित्र07:4408:29
4Pitṛ पितृ08:2909:13
5Vasu वसु09:1309:58
6Jala जल09:5810:43
7Viśva विश्व10:4311:28
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि11:2812:12
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव12:1212:57
10Indra इन्द्र12:5713:42
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी13:4214:26
12Niśācara निशाचर14:2615:11
13Varuṇa वरुण15:1115:56
14Aryaman अर्यमन्15:5616:41
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि16:4117:25

Sunrise / Sunset Reference for Kāśī Viśvanāth (in Vārāṇasī)

Coordinates: 25.3110°N · 83.0107°E · Timezone: explicit fixed-offset record · UTC+5.5

Sunrise: 06:14 · Sunset: 17:25

Sources and Related Timing Tools

Continue from this Muhūrta table to the same city-day Pañchāṅga, companion timing tools, machine-readable data, Jyotiṣa references, and Saṁskāra-muhūrta guidance. Timing supports dharma but does not replace guru, family, qualified local, medical, or legal guidance, or surrender to Krishna.

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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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