🪷 पञ्चाङ्ग — Manchester, UK

April 16, 2026 CE · GB · UTC+0

सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya	05:24	Sūryāsta	19:13

काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

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Window	Time	Rule	Source
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)	04:02 – 04:43	the 14th fifteenth of the night ending at this sunrise	Manusmṛti 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)	11:50 – 12:46	the 8th fifteenth of the day, around midday	Ṭikaṇikayātrā 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)	19:07 – 19:19	15 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)	23:57 – 00:37	the 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)	08:51 – 10:34	Saturn's eighth of the day: part 3 of 8, counted from Jupiter	Bṛhat-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)	05:24 – 07:07	Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 1 of 8, counted from Jupiter	Bṛhat-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)	14:02 – 15:45	part 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)

#	Name	Planet	Time
1	Śubha शुभ	Jupiter	05:24 – 07:07
2	Roga रोग	Mars	07:07 – 08:51
3	Udvega उद्वेग	Sun	08:51 – 10:34
4	Cara चर	Venus	10:34 – 12:18
5	Lābha लाभ	Mercury	12:18 – 14:02
6	Amṛta अमृत	Moon	14:02 – 15:45
7	Kāla काल	Saturn	15:45 – 17:29
8	Śubha शुभ	Jupiter	17:29 – 19:13

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#	Name	Planet	Time
1	Amṛta अमृत	Moon	19:13 – 20:29
2	Cara चर	Venus	20:29 – 21:45
3	Roga रोग	Mars	21:45 – 23:01
4	Kāla काल	Saturn	23:01 – 00:17
5	Lābha लाभ	Mercury	00:17 – 01:33
6	Udvega उद्वेग	Sun	01:33 – 02:49
7	Śubha शुभ	Jupiter	02:49 – 04:05
8	Amṛta अमृत	Moon	04:05 – 05:21

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
1	Śiva शिव	05:24 – 06:19
2	Bhujaga भुजग	06:19 – 07:14
3	Mitra मित्र	07:14 – 08:09
4	Pitṛ पितृ	08:09 – 09:05
5	Vasu वसु	09:05 – 10:00
6	Jala जल	10:00 – 10:55
7	Viśva विश्व	10:55 – 11:50
8	Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि	11:50 – 12:46
9	Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव	12:46 – 13:41
10	Indra इन्द्र	13:41 – 14:36
11	Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी	14:36 – 15:32
12	Niśācara निशाचर	15:32 – 16:27
13	Varuṇa वरुण	16:27 – 17:22
14	Aryaman अर्यमन्	17:22 – 18:17
15	Yoni (Bhaga) योनि	18:17 – 19:13

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#	Muhūrta (deity)	Time
1	Rudra रुद्र	19:13 – 19:53
2	Aja अज	19:53 – 20:34
3	Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य	20:34 – 21:14
4	Pūṣan पूषन्	21:14 – 21:55
5	Dasra दस्र	21:55 – 22:36
6	Antaka अन्तक	22:36 – 23:16
7	Agni अग्नि	23:16 – 23:57
8	Dhātṛ धातृ	23:57 – 00:37
9	Indu इन्दु	00:37 – 01:18
10	Aditi अदिति	01:18 – 01:58
11	Guru गुरु	01:58 – 02:39
12	Hari हरि	02:39 – 03:20
13	Ravi रवि	03:20 – 04:00
14	Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ	04:00 – 04:41
15	Anila अनिल	04:41 – 05:21

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.

System	Rule	Value
Sūrya Siddhānta (text)	Libration ±27°, 600 turns per Age (III.9-10)	22.9050°

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