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सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya04:26Sūryāsta19:23

काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

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WindowTimeRuleSource
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)03:14 – 03:50the 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)11:25 – 12:25the 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)19:17 – 19:2915 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)23:37 – 00:14the 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)15:39 – 17:31Saturn's eighth of the day: part 7 of 8, counted from SunBṛhat-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)11:55 – 13:47Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 5 of 8, counted from SunBṛhat-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)17:31 – 19:23part 8 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
1Udvega उद्वेगSun04:26 – 06:18
2Cara चरVenus06:18 – 08:11
3Lābha लाभMercury08:11 – 10:03
4Amṛta अमृतMoon10:03 – 11:55
5Kāla कालSaturn11:55 – 13:47
6Śubha शुभJupiter13:47 – 15:39
7Roga रोगMars15:39 – 17:31
8Udvega उद्वेगSun17:31 – 19:23

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#NamePlanetTime
1Śubha शुभJupiter19:23 – 20:31
2Amṛta अमृतMoon20:31 – 21:39
3Cara चरVenus21:39 – 22:48
4Roga रोगMars22:48 – 23:56
5Kāla कालSaturn23:56 – 01:04
6Lābha लाभMercury01:04 – 02:12
7Udvega उद्वेगSun02:12 – 03:20
8Śubha शुभJupiter03:20 – 04:28

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 शिव04:26 – 05:26
2Bhujaga भुजग05:26 – 06:26
3Mitra मित्र06:26 – 07:26
4Pitṛ पितृ07:26 – 08:26
5Vasu वसु08:26 – 09:25
6Jala जल09:25 – 10:25
7Viśva विश्व10:25 – 11:25
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि11:25 – 12:25
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव12:25 – 13:24
10Indra इन्द्र13:24 – 14:24
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी14:24 – 15:24
12Niśācara निशाचर15:24 – 16:24
13Varuṇa वरुण16:24 – 17:24
14Aryaman अर्यमन्17:24 – 18:23
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि18:23 – 19:23

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Rudra रुद्र19:23 – 20:00
2Aja अज20:00 – 20:36
3Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य20:36 – 21:12
4Pūṣan पूषन्21:12 – 21:49
5Dasra दस्र21:49 – 22:25
6Antaka अन्तक22:25 – 23:01
7Agni अग्नि23:01 – 23:37
8Dhātṛ धातृ23:37 – 00:14
9Indu इन्दु00:14 – 00:50
10Aditi अदिति00:50 – 01:26
11Guru गुरु01:26 – 02:03
12Hari हरि02:03 – 02:39
13Ravi रवि02:39 – 03:15
14Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ03:15 – 03:52
15Anila अनिल03:52 – 04:28

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)22.9097°

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