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सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya05:51Sūryāsta18:23

काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

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WindowTimeRuleSource
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)04:19 – 05:05the 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 – 12:32the 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)18:17 – 18:2915 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)23:43 – 00:29the 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)08:59 – 10:33Saturn'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)05:51 – 07:25Jupiter'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)13:41 – 15:15part 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 शुभJupiter05:51 – 07:25
2Roga रोगMars07:25 – 08:59
3Udvega उद्वेगSun08:59 – 10:33
4Cara चरVenus10:33 – 12:07
5Lābha लाभMercury12:07 – 13:41
6Amṛta अमृतMoon13:41 – 15:15
7Kāla कालSaturn15:15 – 16:49
8Śubha शुभJupiter16:49 – 18:23

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#NamePlanetTime
1Amṛta अमृतMoon18:23 – 19:49
2Cara चरVenus19:49 – 21:14
3Roga रोगMars21:14 – 22:40
4Kāla कालSaturn22:40 – 00:06
5Lābha लाभMercury00:06 – 01:32
6Udvega उद्वेगSun01:32 – 02:58
7Śubha शुभJupiter02:58 – 04:24
8Amṛta अमृतMoon04:24 – 05:49

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 शिव05:51 – 06:41
2Bhujaga भुजग06:41 – 07:31
3Mitra मित्र07:31 – 08:21
4Pitṛ पितृ08:21 – 09:11
5Vasu वसु09:11 – 10:01
6Jala जल10:01 – 10:52
7Viśva विश्व10:52 – 11:42
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि11:42 – 12:32
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव12:32 – 13:22
10Indra इन्द्र13:22 – 14:12
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी14:12 – 15:02
12Niśācara निशाचर15:02 – 15:52
13Varuṇa वरुण15:52 – 16:42
14Aryaman अर्यमन्16:42 – 17:33
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि17:33 – 18:23

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Rudra रुद्र18:23 – 19:08
2Aja अज19:08 – 19:54
3Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य19:54 – 20:40
4Pūṣan पूषन्20:40 – 21:26
5Dasra दस्र21:26 – 22:12
6Antaka अन्तक22:12 – 22:57
7Agni अग्नि22:57 – 23:43
8Dhātṛ धातृ23:43 – 00:29
9Indu इन्दु00:29 – 01:15
10Aditi अदिति01:15 – 02:00
11Guru गुरु02:00 – 02:46
12Hari हरि02:46 – 03:32
13Ravi रवि03:32 – 04:18
14Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ04:18 – 05:04
15Anila अनिल05:04 – 05:49

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)22.9044°

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