🪷 पञ्चाङ्ग — Dvārakā

April 18, 2026 CE · IN · UTC+5.5

सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya	06:45	Sūryāsta	19:20

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)	05:14 – 06:00	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)	12:38 – 13:28	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)	19:14 – 19:26	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)	00:40 – 01:25	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)	06:45 – 08:20	Saturn's eighth of the day: part 1 of 8, counted from Saturn	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)	14:37 – 16:11	Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 6 of 8, counted from Saturn	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)	09:54 – 11:28	part 3 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)

#	Name	Planet	Time
1	Kāla काल	Saturn	06:45 – 08:20
2	Śubha शुभ	Jupiter	08:20 – 09:54
3	Roga रोग	Mars	09:54 – 11:28
4	Udvega उद्वेग	Sun	11:28 – 13:03
5	Cara चर	Venus	13:03 – 14:37
6	Lābha लाभ	Mercury	14:37 – 16:11
7	Amṛta अमृत	Moon	16:11 – 17:46
8	Kāla काल	Saturn	17:46 – 19:20

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#	Name	Planet	Time
1	Lābha लाभ	Mercury	19:20 – 20:46
2	Udvega उद्वेग	Sun	20:46 – 22:11
3	Śubha शुभ	Jupiter	22:11 – 23:37
4	Amṛta अमृत	Moon	23:37 – 01:02
5	Cara चर	Venus	01:02 – 02:28
6	Roga रोग	Mars	02:28 – 03:54
7	Kāla काल	Saturn	03:54 – 05:19
8	Lābha लाभ	Mercury	05:19 – 06:45

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	06:45 – 07:36
2	Bhujaga भुजग	07:36 – 08:26
3	Mitra मित्र	08:26 – 09:16
4	Pitṛ पितृ	09:16 – 10:07
5	Vasu वसु	10:07 – 10:57
6	Jala जल	10:57 – 11:47
7	Viśva विश्व	11:47 – 12:38
8	Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि	12:38 – 13:28
9	Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव	13:28 – 14:18
10	Indra इन्द्र	14:18 – 15:09
11	Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी	15:09 – 15:59
12	Niśācara निशाचर	15:59 – 16:49
13	Varuṇa वरुण	16:49 – 17:40
14	Aryaman अर्यमन्	17:40 – 18:30
15	Yoni (Bhaga) योनि	18:30 – 19:20

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#	Muhūrta (deity)	Time
1	Rudra रुद्र	19:20 – 20:06
2	Aja अज	20:06 – 20:51
3	Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य	20:51 – 21:37
4	Pūṣan पूषन्	21:37 – 22:23
5	Dasra दस्र	22:23 – 23:08
6	Antaka अन्तक	23:08 – 23:54
7	Agni अग्नि	23:54 – 00:40
8	Dhātṛ धातृ	00:40 – 01:25
9	Indu इन्दु	01:25 – 02:11
10	Aditi अदिति	02:11 – 02:56
11	Guru गुरु	02:56 – 03:42
12	Hari हरि	03:42 – 04:28
13	Ravi रवि	04:28 – 05:13
14	Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ	05:13 – 05:59
15	Anila अनिल	05:59 – 06:45

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
Sūrya Siddhānta (text)	Libration ±27°, 600 turns per Age (III.9-10)	22.9051°

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