🪷 Muhūrta Table · Kedārnāth · 2026-07-17

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

Windows of the Day, with their Sources

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

Window	Start	End	Duration	Rule · Source
Brahma Muhūrta ब्रह्म मुहूर्त	03:55	04:36	40.6 min	the 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 मुहूर्त	11:44	12:39	55.4 min	the 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")
Godhūli गोधूलि	19:01	19:13	12 min	15 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 निशीथ	23:51	00:32	40.6 min	the 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 गुलिक	07:00	08:44	103.8 min	Saturn's eighth of the day: part 2 of 8, counted from Venus · 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 यमघण्टक	15:39	17:23	103.8 min	Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 7 of 8, counted from Venus · 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 काल	10:28	12:12	103.8 min	part 4 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)	Start	End
1	Śiva शिव	05:16	06:12
2	Bhujaga भुजग	06:12	07:07
3	Mitra मित्र	07:07	08:02
4	Pitṛ पितृ	08:02	08:58
5	Vasu वसु	08:58	09:53
6	Jala जल	09:53	10:48
7	Viśva विश्व	10:48	11:44
8	Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि	11:44	12:39
9	Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव	12:39	13:35
10	Indra इन्द्र	13:35	14:30
11	Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी	14:30	15:25
12	Niśācara निशाचर	15:25	16:21
13	Varuṇa वरुण	16:21	17:16
14	Aryaman अर्यमन्	17:16	18:12
15	Yoni (Bhaga) योनि	18:12	19:07

Sunrise / Sunset Reference for Kedārnāth

Coordinates: 30.7352°N · 79.0669°E · Timezone: explicit fixed-offset record · UTC+5.5

Sunrise: 05:16 · Sunset: 19:07

Sources and Related Timing Tools

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📚 See Also

Choghadiya for Kedārnāth on 2026-07-17 · 8 day + 8 night choghadiya windows
Hora (planetary hours) for Kedārnāth on 2026-07-17 · 24-hour graha-rulership cycle
Universal pañchāṅga for 2026-07-17 · Tithi · nakshatra · yoga · karaṇa · vāra
Kedārnāth city page · Localized Vedic-pañchāṅga coverage
Saṁskāra-Muhūrta Finder · Pick auspicious dates for life-rites

📖 References

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

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