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March 21, 2026 CE · US · UTC-5

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सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya06:07Sūryāsta18:06

काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

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WindowTimeRuleSource
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)04:31 – 05:19the 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)11:43 – 12:30the 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)18:00 – 18:1215 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)23:42 – 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)06:07 – 07:37Saturn's eighth of the day: part 1 of 8, counted from SaturnBṛhat-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)13:36 – 15:06Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 6 of 8, counted from SaturnBṛhat-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)09:07 – 10:37part 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)

#NamePlanetTime
1Kāla कालSaturn06:07 – 07:37
2Śubha शुभJupiter07:37 – 09:07
3Roga रोगMars09:07 – 10:37
4Udvega उद्वेगSun10:37 – 12:06
5Cara चरVenus12:06 – 13:36
6Lābha लाभMercury13:36 – 15:06
7Amṛta अमृतMoon15:06 – 16:36
8Kāla कालSaturn16:36 – 18:06

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#NamePlanetTime
1Lābha लाभMercury18:06 – 19:36
2Udvega उद्वेगSun19:36 – 21:06
3Śubha शुभJupiter21:06 – 22:36
4Amṛta अमृतMoon22:36 – 00:06
5Cara चरVenus00:06 – 01:36
6Roga रोगMars01:36 – 03:06
7Kāla कालSaturn03:06 – 04:36
8Lābha लाभMercury04:36 – 06:06

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 शिव06:07 – 06:55
2Bhujaga भुजग06:55 – 07:43
3Mitra मित्र07:43 – 08:31
4Pitṛ पितृ08:31 – 09:19
5Vasu वसु09:19 – 10:07
6Jala जल10:07 – 10:55
7Viśva विश्व10:55 – 11:43
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि11:43 – 12:30
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव12:30 – 13:18
10Indra इन्द्र13:18 – 14:06
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी14:06 – 14:54
12Niśācara निशाचर14:54 – 15:42
13Varuṇa वरुण15:42 – 16:30
14Aryaman अर्यमन्16:30 – 17:18
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि17:18 – 18:06

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Rudra रुद्र18:06 – 18:54
2Aja अज18:54 – 19:42
3Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य19:42 – 20:30
4Pūṣan पूषन्20:30 – 21:18
5Dasra दस्र21:18 – 22:06
6Antaka अन्तक22:06 – 22:54
7Agni अग्नि22:54 – 23:42
8Dhātṛ धातृ23:42 – 00:30
9Indu इन्दु00:30 – 01:18
10Aditi अदिति01:18 – 02:06
11Guru गुरु02:06 – 02:54
12Hari हरि02:54 – 03:42
13Ravi रवि03:42 – 04:30
14Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ04:30 – 05:18
15Anila अनिल05:18 – 06:06

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)22.9039°

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