Kolkata panchang, 28 September 2023
Sunrise 05:27 Sunset 17:26 Moonrise 16:55 Bhadrapada month
Kolkata, West Bengal, India · 22.56°, 88.36° · Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30)
Sunrise to sunrise
- Bad
- Good
- A limb changes
Day
05:27 to 17:26- Shubh
- Rog
- Udveg
- Char
- Labh
- Amrit
- Kaal
- Shubh
- Yamaganda 05:27 – 06:57
- Gulika Kalam 08:27 – 09:57
- Durmuhurta 09:27 – 10:15
- Abhijit Muhurta 11:03 – 11:51
- Rahu Kalam 12:57 – 14:26
- Durmuhurta 14:14 – 15:02
- 08:34 Karana becomes Vanija
Night
17:26 to 05:28 next day- Amrit
- Char
- Rog
- Kaal
- Labh
- Udveg
- Shubh
- Amrit
- Pradosha 17:26 – 19:50
- Brahma Muhurta 03:51 – 04:40 Current practice: the 14th night muhurta
- 18:49 Tithi becomes Purnima
- 18:49 Karana becomes Vishti
- 20:28 Moon enters Pisces
- 23:54 Yoga becomes Vriddhi
- 01:48 next day Nakshatra becomes Uttara Bhadrapada
- 05:07 next day Karana becomes Bava
The five limbs
- Tithi Shukla Chaturdashi until 18:49
- Nakshatra Purva Bhadrapada until 01:48 next day · lord Jupiter
- Yoga Ganda until 23:54
- Karana Gara until 08:34, then Vanija
- Vara Thursday lord Jupiter
- Moon and Sun Aquarius Moon Sun in Virgo
- 08:34 Karana becomes Vanija
- 18:49 Tithi becomes Purnima
- 18:49 Karana becomes Vishti
- 20:28 Moon enters Pisces
- 23:54 Yoga becomes Vriddhi
- 01:48 next day Nakshatra becomes Uttara Bhadrapada
- 05:07 next day Karana becomes Bava
Times to avoid
- Inauspicious yoga Ganda Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.34–35, p. 28; Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 33 (Vajra 9 in Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa v. 2, p. 3) 03:54 – 06:18
- Yamaganda Kālaprakāśikā pp. 175–176 05:27 – 06:57
- Gulika Kalam Kālaprakāśikā pp. 175–176 08:27 – 09:57
- Durmuhurta Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 6.52, p. 275 09:27 – 10:15
- Rahu Kalam Kālaprakāśikā pp. 175–176 12:57 – 14:26
- Durmuhurta Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 6.52, p. 275 14:14 – 15:02
- Bhadra (Vishti karana) On earth (martya) Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.43–45, pp. 35–38 18:49 – 20:28
- Bhadra (Vishti karana) On earth (martya) Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.43–45, pp. 35–38 20:28 – 05:07 next day
- Mahapata (equal declinations) Vyatipata, exact at 05:09 next day Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.34 commentary, p. 30 04:14 – 05:28 next day
Good windows
- Brahma Muhurta Current practice: the 14th of the night's 15 muhurtas, ending one muhurta before sunrise. Manusmṛti 4.92 names the brahma muhurta; Kullūka (1909, p. 149) reads it as the last yama of the night, and Govindarāja, as Kullūka reports him, as its last muhurta. 03:51 – 04:39
- Abhijit Muhurta Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 6.50, p. 274 (the 8th day muhurta); 6.52, p. 275 (not on Wednesday) 11:03 – 11:51
- Pradosha Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 3.6 commentary, p. 125 (Skanda); Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 29; Vīramitrodaya, Samaya-prakāśa, p. 129 17:26 – 19:50
- Ravi yoga Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.27, p. 22 05:27 – 01:48 next day
- Siddha Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.4, Kaśyapa in the commentary, p. 12 18:49 – 05:28 next day
Choghadiya
| Shubh | 05:27 – 06:57 | Good |
|---|---|---|
| Rog | 06:57 – 08:27 | Bad |
| Udveg | 08:27 – 09:57 | Bad |
| Char | 09:57 – 11:27 | Neutral |
| Labh | 11:27 – 12:57 | Good |
| Amrit | 12:57 – 14:26 | Good |
| Kaal | 14:26 – 15:56 | Bad |
| Shubh | 15:56 – 17:26 | Good |
| Amrit | 17:26 – 18:56 | Good |
|---|---|---|
| Char | 18:56 – 20:26 | Neutral |
| Rog | 20:26 – 21:57 | Bad |
| Kaal | 21:57 – 23:27 | Bad |
| Labh | 23:27 – 00:57 next day | Good |
| Udveg | 00:57 – 02:27 next day | Bad |
| Shubh | 02:27 – 03:57 next day | Good |
| Amrit | 03:57 – 05:28 next day | Good |
Hora
Seasonal horas: the daytime and the night each in 12 parts. No printed source is cited for this split.
Equal horas: 60 minutes (2.5 ghatis) each, counted from sunrise as Vivāha-vṛndāvana counts them. The 24th runs to the next sunrise. Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.55, p. 49
- 05:27 NowJupiter
- 06:27 NowMars
- 07:27 NowSun
- 08:27 NowVenus
- 09:27 NowMercury
- 10:27 NowMoon
- 11:27 NowSaturn
- 12:27 NowJupiter
- 13:26 NowMars
- 14:26 NowSun
- 15:26 NowVenus
- 16:26 NowMercury
- 17:26 NowMoon
- 18:26 NowSaturn
- 19:26 NowJupiter
- 20:26 NowMars
- 21:27 NowSun
- 22:27 NowVenus
- 23:27 NowMercury
- Next day
- 00:27 NowMoon
- 01:27 NowSaturn
- 02:27 NowJupiter
- 03:27 NowMars
- 04:28 NowSun
- 05:27 NowJupiter
- 06:27 NowMars
- 07:27 NowSun
- 08:27 NowVenus
- 09:27 NowMercury
- 10:27 NowMoon
- 11:27 NowSaturn
- 12:27 NowJupiter
- 13:27 NowMars
- 14:27 NowSun
- 15:27 NowVenus
- 16:27 NowMercury
- 17:27 NowMoon
- 18:27 NowSaturn
- 19:27 NowJupiter
- 20:27 NowMars
- 21:27 NowSun
- 22:27 NowVenus
- 23:27 NowMercury
- Next day
- 00:27 NowMoon
- 01:27 NowSaturn
- 02:27 NowJupiter
- 03:27 NowMars
- 04:27 NowSun
Rising sign (lagna)
- 03:51 – 04:45 Leo
- 04:45 – 06:55 Virgo
- 06:55 – 09:09 Libra
- 09:09 – 11:25 Scorpio
- 11:25 – 13:30 Sagittarius
- 13:30 – 15:17 Capricorn
- 15:17 – 16:51 Aquarius
- 16:51 – 18:22 Pisces
- 18:22 – 20:02 Aries
- 20:02 – 22:01 Taurus
- 22:01 – 00:14 next day Gemini
- 00:14 – 02:30 next day Cancer
- 02:30 – 04:41 next day Leo
- 04:41 – 05:28 next day Virgo
The Vedic day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise.
Lahiri ayanamsa · sunrise and sunset at the centre of the Sun’s disc, with refraction, at sea level · Swiss Ephemeris · times in IST (UTC+5:30) · Method