🪷 पञ्चाङ्ग — Siliguri, West Bengal

August 12, 2026 CE · IN · UTC+5.5

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सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya04:58Sūryāsta18:04

काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

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WindowTimeRuleSource
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)03:31 – 04:14the 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 – 11:57the 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")
Wednesday: Nārada-saṃhitā 9.4-5 and Muhūrta-gaṇapati 85-86 except Abhijit on this weekday
Godhūli (गोधूलि)17:58 – 18:1015 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)23:09 – 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)09:53 – 11:31Saturn's eighth of the day: part 4 of 8, counted from MercuryBṛhat-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)06:36 – 08:14Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 2 of 8, counted from MercuryBṛhat-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)11:31 – 13:09part 5 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
1Lābha लाभMercury04:58 – 06:36
2Amṛta अमृतMoon06:36 – 08:14
3Kāla कालSaturn08:14 – 09:53
4Śubha शुभJupiter09:53 – 11:31
5Roga रोगMars11:31 – 13:09
6Udvega उद्वेगSun13:09 – 14:47
7Cara चरVenus14:47 – 16:25
8Lābha लाभMercury16:25 – 18:04

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#NamePlanetTime
1Udvega उद्वेगSun18:04 – 19:25
2Śubha शुभJupiter19:25 – 20:47
3Amṛta अमृतMoon20:47 – 22:09
4Cara चरVenus22:09 – 23:31
5Roga रोगMars23:31 – 00:53
6Kāla कालSaturn00:53 – 02:15
7Lābha लाभMercury02:15 – 03:37
8Udvega उद्वेगSun03:37 – 04:58

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 शिव04:58 – 05:50
2Bhujaga भुजग05:50 – 06:43
3Mitra मित्र06:43 – 07:35
4Pitṛ पितृ07:35 – 08:27
5Vasu वसु08:27 – 09:20
6Jala जल09:20 – 10:12
7Viśva विश्व10:12 – 11:05
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि11:05 – 11:57
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव11:57 – 12:49
10Indra इन्द्र12:49 – 13:42
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी13:42 – 14:34
12Niśācara निशाचर14:34 – 15:26
13Varuṇa वरुण15:26 – 16:19
14Aryaman अर्यमन्16:19 – 17:11
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि17:11 – 18:04

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Rudra रुद्र18:04 – 18:47
2Aja अज18:47 – 19:31
3Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य19:31 – 20:15
4Pūṣan पूषन्20:15 – 20:58
5Dasra दस्र20:58 – 21:42
6Antaka अन्तक21:42 – 22:26
7Agni अग्नि22:26 – 23:09
8Dhātṛ धातृ23:09 – 23:53
9Indu इन्दु23:53 – 00:36
10Aditi अदिति00:36 – 01:20
11Guru गुरु01:20 – 02:04
12Hari हरि02:04 – 02:47
13Ravi रवि02:47 – 03:31
14Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ03:31 – 04:15
15Anila अनिल04:15 – 04:58

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)22.9098°

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