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April 30, 2026 CE · US · UTC-5

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सूर्योदय / सूर्यास्त — Solar Times

Sūryodaya05:27Sūryāsta19:05

काल-विभाग — Divisions of the Day

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WindowTimeRuleSource
Brahma Muhūrta (ब्रह्म मुहूर्त)04:04 – 04:46the 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)11:49 – 12:44the 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)18:59 – 19:1115 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)23:55 – 00:36the 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)08:52 – 10:34Saturn's eighth of the day: part 3 of 8, counted from JupiterBṛhat-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)05:27 – 07:09Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 1 of 8, counted from JupiterBṛhat-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)13:59 – 15:41part 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)

#NamePlanetTime
1Śubha शुभJupiter05:27 – 07:09
2Roga रोगMars07:09 – 08:52
3Udvega उद्वेगSun08:52 – 10:34
4Cara चरVenus10:34 – 12:16
5Lābha लाभMercury12:16 – 13:59
6Amṛta अमृतMoon13:59 – 15:41
7Kāla कालSaturn15:41 – 17:23
8Śubha शुभJupiter17:23 – 19:05

Night Choghaḍiyās (sunset → next sunrise)

#NamePlanetTime
1Amṛta अमृतMoon19:05 – 20:23
2Cara चरVenus20:23 – 21:40
3Roga रोगMars21:40 – 22:58
4Kāla कालSaturn22:58 – 00:16
5Lābha लाभMercury00:16 – 01:33
6Udvega उद्वेगSun01:33 – 02:51
7Śubha शुभJupiter02:51 – 04:08
8Amṛta अमृतMoon04:08 – 05:26

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 शिव05:27 – 06:22
2Bhujaga भुजग06:22 – 07:16
3Mitra मित्र07:16 – 08:11
4Pitṛ पितृ08:11 – 09:05
5Vasu वसु09:05 – 10:00
6Jala जल10:00 – 10:54
7Viśva विश्व10:54 – 11:49
8Viriñci (Abhijit) विरिञ्चि11:49 – 12:44
9Paṅkajaprabhava (Brahmā) पङ्कजप्रभव12:44 – 13:38
10Indra इन्द्र13:38 – 14:33
11Indrāgnī इन्द्राग्नी14:33 – 15:27
12Niśācara निशाचर15:27 – 16:22
13Varuṇa वरुण16:22 – 17:16
14Aryaman अर्यमन्17:16 – 18:11
15Yoni (Bhaga) योनि18:11 – 19:05

१५ रात्रि-मुहूर्त — 15 Night-Muhūrtas

#Muhūrta (deity)Time
1Rudra रुद्र19:05 – 19:47
2Aja अज19:47 – 20:28
3Ahirbudhnya अहिर्बुध्न्य20:28 – 21:09
4Pūṣan पूषन्21:09 – 21:51
5Dasra दस्र21:51 – 22:32
6Antaka अन्तक22:32 – 23:14
7Agni अग्नि23:14 – 23:55
8Dhātṛ धातृ23:55 – 00:36
9Indu इन्दु00:36 – 01:18
10Aditi अदिति01:18 – 01:59
11Guru गुरु01:59 – 02:40
12Hari हरि02:40 – 03:22
13Ravi रवि03:22 – 04:03
14Tvaṣṭṛ त्वष्टृ04:03 – 04:45
15Anila अनिल04:45 – 05:26

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)22.9056°

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