🪷 पञ्चाङ्ग — Bhavnagar, Gujarat

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सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

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काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

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WindowTimeRuleSource
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)05:35 – 06:28the 14th fifteenth of the night ending at this sunriseManusmṛti 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)12:21 – 13:04the 8th fifteenth of the day, around middayṬikaṇikayātrā 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 (गोधूलि)17:57 – 18:0915 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)00:16 – 01:09the 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)11:22 – 12:42Saturn's eighth of the day: part 4 of 8, counted from MercuryBṛhat-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)08:41 – 10:02Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 2 of 8, counted from MercuryBṛhat-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)12:42 – 14:02part 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."

चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā

An almanac convention of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra: no verse defining it was found in the classical muhūrta texts; the names are the convention's own, and no further verdict is given here.

Day Choghaḍiyās (sunrise → sunset)

#NamePlanetTime
1Lābha लाभMercury07:21 – 08:41
2Amṛta अमृतMoon08:41 – 10:02
3Kāla कालSaturn10:02 – 11:22
4Śubha शुभJupiter11:22 – 12:42
5Roga रोगMars12:42 – 14:02
6Udvega उद्वेगSun14:02 – 15:23
7Cara चरVenus15:23 – 16:43
8Lābha लाभMercury16:43 – 18:03

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#NamePlanetTime
1Udvega उद्वेगSun18:03 – 19:43
2Śubha शुभJupiter19:43 – 21:23
3Amṛta अमृतMoon21:23 – 23:02
4Cara चरVenus23:02 – 00:42
5Roga रोगMars00:42 – 02:22
6Kāla कालSaturn02:22 – 04:02
7Lābha लाभMercury04:02 – 05:41
8Udvega उद्वेगSun05:41 – 07:21

१५ दिन-मुहूर्त — 15 Day-Muhūrtas

Each muhūrta is a fifteenth of the day, and of the night (Varāhamihira, Ṭikaṇikayātrā 3.4); the names and their deities are his (3.2-3.3). He and the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (98.3) judge a muhūrta by its presiding deity; no muhūrta is labelled here.

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Śiva शिव07:21 – 08:04
2Bhujaga भुजग08:04 – 08:47
3Mitra मित्र08:47 – 09:30
4Pitṛ पितृ09:30 – 10:12
5Vasu वसु10:12 – 10:55
6Jala जल10:55 – 11:38
7Viśva विश्व11:38 – 12:21
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि12:21 – 13:04
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव13:04 – 13:46
10Indra इन्द्र13:46 – 14:29
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी14:29 – 15:12
12Niśācara निशाचर15:12 – 15:55
13Varuṇa वरुण15:55 – 16:38
14Aryaman अर्यमन्16:38 – 17:20
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि17:20 – 18:03

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Rudra रुद्र18:03 – 18:56
2Aja अज18:56 – 19:50
3Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य19:50 – 20:43
4Pūṣan पूषन्20:43 – 21:36
5Dasra दस्र21:36 – 22:29
6Antaka अन्तक22:29 – 23:22
7Agni अग्नि23:22 – 00:16
8Dhātṛ धातृ00:16 – 01:09
9Indu इन्दु01:09 – 02:02
10Aditi अदिति02:02 – 02:55
11Guru गुरु02:55 – 03:48
12Hari हरि03:48 – 04:42
13Ravi रवि04:42 – 05:35
14Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ05:35 – 06:28
15Anila अनिल06:28 – 07:21

अयनांश — Ayanāṁśa of the Sūrya Siddhānta

The text's own motion of the equinox: a libration of ±27°, 600 turns in an Age (Sūrya Siddhānta III.9-10). Other schools' anchors are not used here.

SystemRuleValue
Sūrya Siddhānta (text)Libration ±27°, 600 turns per Age (III.9-10)22.9009°

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