🪷 पञ्चाङ्ग — Tiruvaṇṇāmalai (Aruṇācala)

July 20, 2026 CE · IN · UTC+5.5

सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya	05:52	Sūryāsta	18:31

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)	04:21 – 05:06	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)	11:46 – 12:36	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)	18:25 – 18:37	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)	23:49 – 00:34	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)	13:46 – 15:21	Saturn's eighth of the day: part 6 of 8, counted from Moon	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)	10:36 – 12:11	Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 4 of 8, counted from Moon	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)	07:27 – 09:01	part 2 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	Amṛta अमृत	Moon	05:52 – 07:27
2	Kāla काल	Saturn	07:27 – 09:01
3	Śubha शुभ	Jupiter	09:01 – 10:36
4	Roga रोग	Mars	10:36 – 12:11
5	Udvega उद्वेग	Sun	12:11 – 13:46
6	Cara चर	Venus	13:46 – 15:21
7	Lābha लाभ	Mercury	15:21 – 16:56
8	Amṛta अमृत	Moon	16:56 – 18:31

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#	Name	Planet	Time
1	Cara चर	Venus	18:31 – 19:56
2	Roga रोग	Mars	19:56 – 21:21
3	Kāla काल	Saturn	21:21 – 22:46
4	Lābha लाभ	Mercury	22:46 – 00:11
5	Udvega उद्वेग	Sun	00:11 – 01:36
6	Śubha शुभ	Jupiter	01:36 – 03:01
7	Amṛta अमृत	Moon	03:01 – 04:27
8	Cara चर	Venus	04:27 – 05:52

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	05:52 – 06:42
2	Bhujaga भुजग	06:42 – 07:33
3	Mitra मित्र	07:33 – 08:24
4	Pitṛ पितृ	08:24 – 09:14
5	Vasu वसु	09:14 – 10:05
6	Jala जल	10:05 – 10:55
7	Viśva विश्व	10:55 – 11:46
8	Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि	11:46 – 12:36
9	Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव	12:36 – 13:27
10	Indra इन्द्र	13:27 – 14:18
11	Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी	14:18 – 15:08
12	Niśācara निशाचर	15:08 – 15:59
13	Varuṇa वरुण	15:59 – 16:49
14	Aryaman अर्यमन्	16:49 – 17:40
15	Yoni (Bhaga) योनि	17:40 – 18:31

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#	Muhūrta (deity)	Time
1	Rudra रुद्र	18:31 – 19:16
2	Aja अज	19:16 – 20:01
3	Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य	20:01 – 20:47
4	Pūṣan पूषन्	20:47 – 21:32
5	Dasra दस्र	21:32 – 22:18
6	Antaka अन्तक	22:18 – 23:03
7	Agni अग्नि	23:03 – 23:49
8	Dhātṛ धातृ	23:49 – 00:34
9	Indu इन्दु	00:34 – 01:19
10	Aditi अदिति	01:19 – 02:05
11	Guru गुरु	02:05 – 02:50
12	Hari हरि	02:50 – 03:36
13	Ravi रवि	03:36 – 04:21
14	Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ	04:21 – 05:06
15	Anila अनिल	05:06 – 05:52

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)	22.9089°

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