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सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

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काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

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WindowTimeRuleSource
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)05:28 – 06:26the 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)11:52 – 12:30the 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)16:52 – 17:0415 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)23:42 – 00:39the 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)14:34 – 15:46Saturn'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)12:11 – 13:23Jupiter'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)15:46 – 16:58part 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 उद्वेगSun07:24 – 08:35
2Cara चरVenus08:35 – 09:47
3Lābha लाभMercury09:47 – 10:59
4Amṛta अमृतMoon10:59 – 12:11
5Kāla कालSaturn12:11 – 13:23
6Śubha शुभJupiter13:23 – 14:34
7Roga रोगMars14:34 – 15:46
8Udvega उद्वेगSun15:46 – 16:58

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#NamePlanetTime
1Śubha शुभJupiter16:58 – 18:46
2Amṛta अमृतMoon18:46 – 20:34
3Cara चरVenus20:34 – 22:22
4Roga रोगMars22:22 – 00:10
5Kāla कालSaturn00:10 – 01:59
6Lābha लाभMercury01:59 – 03:47
7Udvega उद्वेगSun03:47 – 05:35
8Śubha शुभJupiter05:35 – 07:23

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 शिव07:24 – 08:02
2Bhujaga भुजग08:02 – 08:40
3Mitra मित्र08:40 – 09:18
4Pitṛ पितृ09:18 – 09:57
5Vasu वसु09:57 – 10:35
6Jala जल10:35 – 11:13
7Viśva विश्व11:13 – 11:52
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि11:52 – 12:30
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव12:30 – 13:08
10Indra इन्द्र13:08 – 13:47
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी13:47 – 14:25
12Niśācara निशाचर14:25 – 15:03
13Varuṇa वरुण15:03 – 15:41
14Aryaman अर्यमन्15:41 – 16:20
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि16:20 – 16:58

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Rudra रुद्र16:58 – 17:56
2Aja अज17:56 – 18:53
3Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य18:53 – 19:51
4Pūṣan पूषन्19:51 – 20:49
5Dasra दस्र20:49 – 21:46
6Antaka अन्तक21:46 – 22:44
7Agni अग्नि22:44 – 23:42
8Dhātṛ धातृ23:42 – 00:39
9Indu इन्दु00:39 – 01:37
10Aditi अदिति01:37 – 02:35
11Guru गुरु02:35 – 03:32
12Hari हरि03:32 – 04:30
13Ravi रवि04:30 – 05:28
14Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ05:28 – 06:25
15Anila अनिल06:25 – 07:23

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)22.9014°

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