Varanasi panchang, 10 August 2024
Sunrise 05:30 Sunset 18:35 Moonrise 10:17 Shravana month
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India · 25.32°, 83.01° · Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30)
Sunrise to sunrise
- Bad
- Good
- A limb changes
Day
05:30 to 18:35- Kaal
- Shubh
- Rog
- Udveg
- Char
- Labh
- Amrit
- Kaal
- Gulika Kalam 05:30 – 07:08
- Durmuhurta 05:30 – 06:22
- Durmuhurta 06:22 – 07:15
- Rahu Kalam 08:46 – 10:24
- Abhijit Muhurta 11:36 – 12:29
- Yamaganda 13:41 – 15:19
- 14:51 Yoga becomes Shubha
- 16:18 Moon enters Libra
- 16:31 Karana becomes Taitila
Night
18:35 to 05:30 next day- Labh
- Udveg
- Shubh
- Amrit
- Char
- Rog
- Kaal
- Labh
- Pradosha 18:35 – 20:46
- Brahma Muhurta 04:03 – 04:47 Current practice: the 14th night muhurta
The five limbs
- Tithi Shukla Shashthi until 05:45 next day
- Nakshatra Chitra until 05:48 next day · lord Mars
- Yoga Sadhya until 14:51
- Karana Kaulava until 16:31, then Taitila
- Vara Saturday lord Saturn
- Moon and Sun Virgo Moon Sun in Cancer
- 14:51 Yoga becomes Shubha
- 16:18 Moon enters Libra
- 16:31 Karana becomes Taitila
Times to avoid
- Gulika Kalam Kālaprakāśikā pp. 175–176 05:30 – 07:08
- Durmuhurta Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 6.52, p. 275 05:30 – 06:22
- Durmuhurta Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 6.52, p. 275 06:22 – 07:15
- Rahu Kalam Kālaprakāśikā pp. 175–176 08:46 – 10:24
- Yamaganda Kālaprakāśikā pp. 175–176 13:41 – 15:19
- Kana Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.30, p. 23 05:30 – 05:30 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. 04:03 – 04:46
- Abhijit Muhurta Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 6.50, p. 274 (the 8th day muhurta); 6.52, p. 275 (not on Wednesday) 11:36 – 12:29
- Pradosha Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 3.6 commentary, p. 125 (Skanda); Nirṇaya-sindhu p. 29; Vīramitrodaya, Samaya-prakāśa, p. 129 18:35 – 20:46
- Ravi yoga Muhūrta-cintāmaṇi 1.27, p. 22 05:30 – 05:30 next day
Choghadiya
| Kaal | 05:30 – 07:08 | Bad |
|---|---|---|
| Shubh | 07:08 – 08:46 | Good |
| Rog | 08:46 – 10:24 | Bad |
| Udveg | 10:24 – 12:03 | Bad |
| Char | 12:03 – 13:41 | Neutral |
| Labh | 13:41 – 15:19 | Good |
| Amrit | 15:19 – 16:57 | Good |
| Kaal | 16:57 – 18:35 | Bad |
| Labh | 18:35 – 19:57 | Good |
|---|---|---|
| Udveg | 19:57 – 21:19 | Bad |
| Shubh | 21:19 – 22:41 | Good |
| Amrit | 22:41 – 00:03 next day | Good |
| Char | 00:03 – 01:25 next day | Neutral |
| Rog | 01:25 – 02:47 next day | Bad |
| Kaal | 02:47 – 04:08 next day | Bad |
| Labh | 04:08 – 05:30 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
- 05:30 NowSaturn
- 06:35 NowJupiter
- 07:41 NowMars
- 08:46 NowSun
- 09:52 NowVenus
- 10:57 NowMercury
- 12:03 NowMoon
- 13:08 NowSaturn
- 14:14 NowJupiter
- 15:19 NowMars
- 16:24 NowSun
- 17:30 NowVenus
- 18:35 NowMercury
- 19:30 NowMoon
- 20:25 NowSaturn
- 21:19 NowJupiter
- 22:14 NowMars
- 23:08 NowSun
- Next day
- 00:03 NowVenus
- 00:57 NowMercury
- 01:52 NowMoon
- 02:47 NowSaturn
- 03:41 NowJupiter
- 04:36 NowMars
- 05:30 NowSaturn
- 06:30 NowJupiter
- 07:30 NowMars
- 08:30 NowSun
- 09:30 NowVenus
- 10:30 NowMercury
- 11:30 NowMoon
- 12:30 NowSaturn
- 13:30 NowJupiter
- 14:30 NowMars
- 15:30 NowSun
- 16:30 NowVenus
- 17:30 NowMercury
- 18:30 NowMoon
- 19:30 NowSaturn
- 20:30 NowJupiter
- 21:30 NowMars
- 22:30 NowSun
- 23:30 NowVenus
- Next day
- 00:30 NowMercury
- 01:30 NowMoon
- 02:30 NowSaturn
- 03:30 NowJupiter
- 04:30 NowMars
Rising sign (lagna)
- 04:03 – 06:02 Cancer
- 06:02 – 08:15 Leo
- 08:15 – 10:28 Virgo
- 10:28 – 12:45 Libra
- 12:45 – 15:02 Scorpio
- 15:02 – 17:07 Sagittarius
- 17:07 – 18:51 Capricorn
- 18:51 – 20:22 Aquarius
- 20:22 – 21:51 Pisces
- 21:51 – 23:29 Aries
- 23:29 – 01:26 next day Taurus
- 01:26 – 03:40 next day Gemini
- 03:40 – 05:30 next day Cancer
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