🪷 पञ्चाङ्ग — Howrah, West Bengal

August 18, 2026 CE · IN · UTC+5.5

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उत्सव — Festivals

सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya05:07Sūryāsta17:54

काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

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WindowTimeRuleSource
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)03:37 – 04:22the 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)11:05 – 11:56the 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)17:48 – 18:0015 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)23:08 – 23:53the 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)11:31 – 13:07Saturn's eighth of the day: part 5 of 8, counted from MarsBṛhat-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)08:19 – 09:55Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 3 of 8, counted from MarsBṛhat-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)14:42 – 16:18part 7 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
1Roga रोगMars05:07 – 06:43
2Udvega उद्वेगSun06:43 – 08:19
3Cara चरVenus08:19 – 09:55
4Lābha लाभMercury09:55 – 11:31
5Amṛta अमृतMoon11:31 – 13:07
6Kāla कालSaturn13:07 – 14:42
7Śubha शुभJupiter14:42 – 16:18
8Roga रोगMars16:18 – 17:54

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#NamePlanetTime
1Kāla कालSaturn17:54 – 19:18
2Lābha लाभMercury19:18 – 20:43
3Udvega उद्वेगSun20:43 – 22:07
4Śubha शुभJupiter22:07 – 23:31
5Amṛta अमृतMoon23:31 – 00:55
6Cara चरVenus00:55 – 02:19
7Roga रोगMars02:19 – 03:43
8Kāla कालSaturn03:43 – 05:07

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 शिव05:07 – 05:58
2Bhujaga भुजग05:58 – 06:49
3Mitra मित्र06:49 – 07:40
4Pitṛ पितृ07:40 – 08:32
5Vasu वसु08:32 – 09:23
6Jala जल09:23 – 10:14
7Viśva विश्व10:14 – 11:05
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि11:05 – 11:56
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव11:56 – 12:47
10Indra इन्द्र12:47 – 13:39
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी13:39 – 14:30
12Niśācara निशाचर14:30 – 15:21
13Varuṇa वरुण15:21 – 16:12
14Aryaman अर्यमन्16:12 – 17:03
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि17:03 – 17:54

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Rudra रुद्र17:54 – 18:39
2Aja अज18:39 – 19:24
3Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य19:24 – 20:09
4Pūṣan पूषन्20:09 – 20:54
5Dasra दस्र20:54 – 21:39
6Antaka अन्तक21:39 – 22:24
7Agni अग्नि22:24 – 23:08
8Dhātṛ धातृ23:08 – 23:53
9Indu इन्दु23:53 – 00:38
10Aditi अदिति00:38 – 01:23
11Guru गुरु01:23 – 02:08
12Hari हरि02:08 – 02:53
13Ravi रवि02:53 – 03:38
14Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ03:38 – 04:22
15Anila अनिल04:22 – 05:07

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)22.9101°

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