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सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya06:43Sūryāsta17:23

काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

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WindowTimeRuleSource
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)04:56 – 05:50the 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)11:42 – 12:24the 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")
Godhūli (गोधूलि)17:17 – 17:2915 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)23:37 – 00:30the 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)09:23 – 10:43Saturn's eighth of the day: part 3 of 8, counted from JupiterBṛhat-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)06:43 – 08:03Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 1 of 8, counted from JupiterBṛhat-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)13:23 – 14:43part 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
  • 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
1Śubha शुभJupiter06:43 – 08:03
2Roga रोगMars08:03 – 09:23
3Udvega उद्वेगSun09:23 – 10:43
4Cara चरVenus10:43 – 12:03
5Lābha लाभMercury12:03 – 13:23
6Amṛta अमृतMoon13:23 – 14:43
7Kāla कालSaturn14:43 – 16:03
8Śubha शुभJupiter16:03 – 17:23

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#NamePlanetTime
1Amṛta अमृतMoon17:23 – 19:03
2Cara चरVenus19:03 – 20:43
3Roga रोगMars20:43 – 22:23
4Kāla कालSaturn22:23 – 00:03
5Lābha लाभMercury00:03 – 01:43
6Udvega उद्वेगSun01:43 – 03:23
7Śubha शुभJupiter03:23 – 05:04
8Amṛta अमृतMoon05:04 – 06:44

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 शिव06:43 – 07:26
2Bhujaga भुजग07:26 – 08:08
3Mitra मित्र08:08 – 08:51
4Pitṛ पितृ08:51 – 09:34
5Vasu वसु09:34 – 10:16
6Jala जल10:16 – 10:59
7Viśva विश्व10:59 – 11:42
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि11:42 – 12:24
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव12:24 – 13:07
10Indra इन्द्र13:07 – 13:50
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी13:50 – 14:32
12Niśācara निशाचर14:32 – 15:15
13Varuṇa वरुण15:15 – 15:58
14Aryaman अर्यमन्15:58 – 16:40
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि16:40 – 17:23

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Rudra रुद्र17:23 – 18:17
2Aja अज18:17 – 19:10
3Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य19:10 – 20:03
4Pūṣan पूषन्20:03 – 20:57
5Dasra दस्र20:57 – 21:50
6Antaka अन्तक21:50 – 22:43
7Agni अग्नि22:43 – 23:37
8Dhātṛ धातृ23:37 – 00:30
9Indu इन्दु00:30 – 01:23
10Aditi अदिति01:23 – 02:17
11Guru गुरु02:17 – 03:10
12Hari हरि03:10 – 04:03
13Ravi रवि04:03 – 04:57
14Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ04:57 – 05:50
15Anila अनिल05:50 – 06:44

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)22.9059°

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