🪷 पञ्चाङ्ग — Tiruvaṇṇāmalai (Aruṇācala)

February 21, 2026 CE · IN · UTC+5.5

उत्सव — Festivals

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सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya	06:30	Sūryāsta	18:11

काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

Each window is shown with the rule that makes it and the source of the rule. Where the sources characterise a window, their words are given; this page adds no label of its own.

Window	Time	Rule	Source
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)	04:52 – 05:41	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)	11:57 – 12:44	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)	18:05 – 18:17	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)	23:56 – 00:45	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)	06:30 – 07:58	Saturn's eighth of the day: part 1 of 8, counted from Saturn	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)	13:48 – 15:15	Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 6 of 8, counted from Saturn	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)	09:25 – 10:53	part 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)

#	Name	Planet	Time
1	Kāla काल	Saturn	06:30 – 07:58
2	Śubha शुभ	Jupiter	07:58 – 09:25
3	Roga रोग	Mars	09:25 – 10:53
4	Udvega उद्वेग	Sun	10:53 – 12:20
5	Cara चर	Venus	12:20 – 13:48
6	Lābha लाभ	Mercury	13:48 – 15:15
7	Amṛta अमृत	Moon	15:15 – 16:43
8	Kāla काल	Saturn	16:43 – 18:11

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#	Name	Planet	Time
1	Lābha लाभ	Mercury	18:11 – 19:43
2	Udvega उद्वेग	Sun	19:43 – 21:15
3	Śubha शुभ	Jupiter	21:15 – 22:48
4	Amṛta अमृत	Moon	22:48 – 00:20
5	Cara चर	Venus	00:20 – 01:53
6	Roga रोग	Mars	01:53 – 03:25
7	Kāla काल	Saturn	03:25 – 04:58
8	Lābha लाभ	Mercury	04:58 – 06:30

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	06:30 – 07:17
2	Bhujaga भुजग	07:17 – 08:04
3	Mitra मित्र	08:04 – 08:50
4	Pitṛ पितृ	08:50 – 09:37
5	Vasu वसु	09:37 – 10:24
6	Jala जल	10:24 – 11:10
7	Viśva विश्व	11:10 – 11:57
8	Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि	11:57 – 12:44
9	Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव	12:44 – 13:30
10	Indra इन्द्र	13:30 – 14:17
11	Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी	14:17 – 15:04
12	Niśācara निशाचर	15:04 – 15:51
13	Varuṇa वरुण	15:51 – 16:37
14	Aryaman अर्यमन्	16:37 – 17:24
15	Yoni (Bhaga) योनि	17:24 – 18:11

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#	Muhūrta (deity)	Time
1	Rudra रुद्र	18:11 – 19:00
2	Aja अज	19:00 – 19:49
3	Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य	19:49 – 20:38
4	Pūṣan पूषन्	20:38 – 21:28
5	Dasra दस्र	21:28 – 22:17
6	Antaka अन्तक	22:17 – 23:06
7	Agni अग्नि	23:06 – 23:56
8	Dhātṛ धातृ	23:56 – 00:45
9	Indu इन्दु	00:45 – 01:34
10	Aditi अदिति	01:34 – 02:24
11	Guru गुरु	02:24 – 03:13
12	Hari हरि	03:13 – 04:02
13	Ravi रवि	04:02 – 04:51
14	Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ	04:51 – 05:41
15	Anila अनिल	05:41 – 06:30

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)	22.9028°

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