🪷 पञ्चाङ्ग — Chennai, Tamil Nadu
September 24, 2026 CE · IN · UTC+5.5
उत्सव — Festivals
- प्रदोष व्रत — Pradoṣa Vrata Shaiva
सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times
| Sūryodaya | 06:00 | Sūryāsta | 18:00 |
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काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day
Each window is shown with the rule that makes it and the source of the rule. Where the sources characterise a window, their words are given; this page adds no label of its own.
| Window | Time | Rule | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त) | 04:24 – 05:12 | the 14th fifteenth of the night ending at this sunrise | Manusmṛti 4.92; Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Sūtra 2.1, with Aruṇadatta and Hemādri
Manu and Vāgbhaṭa name it; the 14th of the night is the commentators' definition |
| Abhijit Muhūrta (अभिजित् मुहूर्त) | 11:36 – 12:24 | the 8th fifteenth of the day, around midday | Ṭikaṇikayātrā 3.7-8; Muhūrta-gaṇapati 83-86; Nārada-saṃhitā 9.4-5
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| Godhūli (गोधूलि) | 17:54 – 18:06 | 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
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) | 23:36 – 00:24 | the 8th fifteenth of the night: the middle of the night (not clock midnight) | Dharmasindhu; Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54
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| Gulika Kālam (गुलिक) | 09:00 – 10:30 | Saturn's eighth of the day: part 3 of 8, counted from Jupiter | Bṛhat-Parāśara-Horāśāstra ch. 3 (upagrahas)
BPHS uses these parts to fix the upagraha points; the 8th eighth has no lord |
| Yamaghaṇṭaka (Yamagaṇḍa) Kālam (यमघण्टक) | 06:00 – 07:30 | Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 1 of 8, counted from Jupiter | Bṛhat-Parāśara-Horāśāstra ch. 3 (upagrahas)
BPHS uses these parts to fix the upagraha points; the 8th eighth has no lord |
| Rāhu Kālam (राहु काल) | 13:30 – 15:00 | part 6 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
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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)
| # | Name | Planet | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Śubha शुभ | Jupiter | 06:00 – 07:30 |
| 2 | Roga रोग | Mars | 07:30 – 09:00 |
| 3 | Udvega उद्वेग | Sun | 09:00 – 10:30 |
| 4 | Cara चर | Venus | 10:30 – 12:00 |
| 5 | Lābha लाभ | Mercury | 12:00 – 13:30 |
| 6 | Amṛta अमृत | Moon | 13:30 – 15:00 |
| 7 | Kāla काल | Saturn | 15:00 – 16:30 |
| 8 | Śubha शुभ | Jupiter | 16:30 – 18:00 |
Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)
| # | Name | Planet | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amṛta अमृत | Moon | 18:00 – 19:30 |
| 2 | Cara चर | Venus | 19:30 – 21:00 |
| 3 | Roga रोग | Mars | 21:00 – 22:30 |
| 4 | Kāla काल | Saturn | 22:30 – 00:00 |
| 5 | Lābha लाभ | Mercury | 00:00 – 01:30 |
| 6 | Udvega उद्वेग | Sun | 01:30 – 03:00 |
| 7 | Śubha शुभ | Jupiter | 03:00 – 04:30 |
| 8 | Amṛta अमृत | Moon | 04:30 – 06:00 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Śiva शिव | 06:00 – 06:48 |
| 2 | Bhujaga भुजग | 06:48 – 07:36 |
| 3 | Mitra मित्र | 07:36 – 08:24 |
| 4 | Pitṛ पितृ | 08:24 – 09:12 |
| 5 | Vasu वसु | 09:12 – 10:00 |
| 6 | Jala जल | 10:00 – 10:48 |
| 7 | Viśva विश्व | 10:48 – 11:36 |
| 8 | Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि | 11:36 – 12:24 |
| 9 | Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव | 12:24 – 13:12 |
| 10 | Indra इन्द्र | 13:12 – 14:00 |
| 11 | Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी | 14:00 – 14:48 |
| 12 | Niśācara निशाचर | 14:48 – 15:36 |
| 13 | Varuṇa वरुण | 15:36 – 16:24 |
| 14 | Aryaman अर्यमन् | 16:24 – 17:12 |
| 15 | Yoni (Bhaga) योनि | 17:12 – 18:00 |
१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas
| # | Muhūrta (deity) | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rudra रुद्र | 18:00 – 18:48 |
| 2 | Aja अज | 18:48 – 19:36 |
| 3 | Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य | 19:36 – 20:24 |
| 4 | Pūṣan पूषन् | 20:24 – 21:12 |
| 5 | Dasra दस्र | 21:12 – 22:00 |
| 6 | Antaka अन्तक | 22:00 – 22:48 |
| 7 | Agni अग्नि | 22:48 – 23:36 |
| 8 | Dhātṛ धातृ | 23:36 – 00:24 |
| 9 | Indu इन्दु | 00:24 – 01:12 |
| 10 | Aditi अदिति | 01:12 – 02:00 |
| 11 | Guru गुरु | 02:00 – 02:48 |
| 12 | Hari हरि | 02:48 – 03:36 |
| 13 | Ravi रवि | 03:36 – 04:24 |
| 14 | Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ | 04:24 – 05:12 |
| 15 | Anila अनिल | 05:12 – 06:00 |
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.
| System | Rule | Value |
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| Sūrya Siddhānta (text) | Libration ±27°, 600 turns per Age (III.9-10) | 22.9116° |
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