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October 17, 2026 CE · NP · UTC+5.75

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सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya06:14Sūryāsta17:37

काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

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WindowTimeRuleSource
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)04:33 – 05:23the 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)11:32 – 12:18the 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)17:31 – 17:4315 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)23:30 – 00:21the 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)06:14 – 07:39Saturn'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)13:20 – 14:46Jupiter'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)09:04 – 10:30part 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 कालSaturn06:14 – 07:39
2Śubha शुभJupiter07:39 – 09:04
3Roga रोगMars09:04 – 10:30
4Udvega उद्वेगSun10:30 – 11:55
5Cara चरVenus11:55 – 13:20
6Lābha लाभMercury13:20 – 14:46
7Amṛta अमृतMoon14:46 – 16:11
8Kāla कालSaturn16:11 – 17:37

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#NamePlanetTime
1Lābha लाभMercury17:37 – 19:11
2Udvega उद्वेगSun19:11 – 20:46
3Śubha शुभJupiter20:46 – 22:21
4Amṛta अमृतMoon22:21 – 23:55
5Cara चरVenus23:55 – 01:30
6Roga रोगMars01:30 – 03:05
7Kāla कालSaturn03:05 – 04:40
8Lābha लाभMercury04:40 – 06:14

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 शिव06:14 – 06:59
2Bhujaga भुजग06:59 – 07:45
3Mitra मित्र07:45 – 08:30
4Pitṛ पितृ08:30 – 09:16
5Vasu वसु09:16 – 10:01
6Jala जल10:01 – 10:47
7Viśva विश्व10:47 – 11:32
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि11:32 – 12:18
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव12:18 – 13:03
10Indra इन्द्र13:03 – 13:49
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी13:49 – 14:34
12Niśācara निशाचर14:34 – 15:20
13Varuṇa वरुण15:20 – 16:06
14Aryaman अर्यमन्16:06 – 16:51
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि16:51 – 17:37

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Rudra रुद्र17:37 – 18:27
2Aja अज18:27 – 19:18
3Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य19:18 – 20:08
4Pūṣan पूषन्20:08 – 20:59
5Dasra दस्र20:59 – 21:49
6Antaka अन्तक21:49 – 22:40
7Agni अग्नि22:40 – 23:30
8Dhātṛ धातृ23:30 – 00:21
9Indu इन्दु00:21 – 01:11
10Aditi अदिति01:11 – 02:02
11Guru गुरु02:02 – 02:52
12Hari हरि02:52 – 03:43
13Ravi रवि03:43 – 04:33
14Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ04:33 – 05:24
15Anila अनिल05:24 – 06:14

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)22.9126°

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