Panchang —
Computed for Mumbai, India · sunrise + Rahu Kaal shift by location.
Pitru Paksha (begins) पितृ पक्ष (आरम्भ)
On this dayThe sixteen days of shraddha begin — offer tarpan to the ancestors on the tithi each of them died. No new beginnings until it closes.
Choghadiya — 8 daytime windows
Classical sub-day divisions used for muhurta timing. Amrit / Shubh / Labh are auspicious; Rog / Kaal avoid; Udveg / Chal neutral.
| Window | Name | Auspiciousness |
|---|---|---|
| 06:26 – 07:57 | Shubh | Good |
| 07:57 – 09:29 | Rog | Avoid |
| 09:29 – 11:01 | Udveg | Avoid |
| 11:01 – 12:33 | Chal | Neutral |
| 12:33 – 14:05 | Labh | Good |
| 14:05 – 15:37 | Amrit | Best |
| 15:37 – 17:08 | Kaal | Avoid |
| 17:08 – 18:40 | Shubh | Good |
What is Panchang?
Panchang (literally "five limbs") is the classical Vedic almanac. Five daily angas describe the character of the day astronomically and karmically:
- Vara (weekday) — Sunday=Sun, Monday=Moon, Tuesday=Mars, Wednesday=Mercury, Thursday=Jupiter, Friday=Venus, Saturday=Saturn. The day's lord shapes its overall tone.
- Tithi (lunar day) — the angular distance between Sun and Moon, divided into 30 parts. Shukla Paksha (1–15) is waxing, Krishna Paksha (16–30) is waning. Some tithis carry widely-held popular characters (Ekadashi = fasting, Purnima = culmination, Amavasya = ancestral rites, Chaturthi = Ganesh energy) — association rather than classical rule; none of the classical texts we hold gives a per-tithi character. Where the texts do speak they can point the other way: the 4th is named unsuitable for starting auspicious work.
- Nakshatra (lunar constellation) — the Moon moves through 27 nakshatras in ~27 days, so this is the fastest-changing sky signal and grounds today's emotional weather.
- Yoga — the Sun+Moon combination divided into 27 yoga windows. Vaidhriti and Vyatipata are the two most inauspicious yogas and are traditionally avoided for muhurta.
- Karana — half-tithi. Vishti (Bhadra) is the karana traditionally avoided for auspicious starts.
Rahu Kaal, Abhijit Muhurta, Choghadiya
Beyond the five angas, classical Vedic timing includes sub-day windows:
- Rahu Kaal — a specific 1/8 slice of daylight considered inauspicious for beginnings. It shifts weekday-by-weekday and depends on your sunrise/sunset (which shifts by location). We compute it correctly for your city.
- Abhijit Muhurta — a ~48-minute window around solar noon, considered the most universally auspicious slot of the day. Perfect for signing important documents, starting a business call, or committing to any decision.
- Gulika Kaal — Saturn's 1/8 of daylight, on the same weekday-lord principle as Rahu Kaal: it moves one slot earlier each day, from the 7th eighth on Sunday to the 1st on Saturday. Narasimha Rao's table of the eight parts of the day gives Saturn's part for each weekday; reading that part as a window is our inference, and its times match the Gulikai Kalam printed by a published almanac. Shown above, from your city's sunrise and sunset.
- Yamaganda and Brahma Muhurta — two more classical timings we do not show yet: the texts we hold do not state a rule we can compute them from, so they are deferred rather than guessed.
- Choghadiya — 8 equal daytime windows named Amrit / Shubh / Labh (auspicious), Rog / Kaal (avoid), Udveg / Chal (neutral). Which name each window gets rotates with weekday. Useful for picking a specific shop-open time or product-launch minute.
How Bhagya computes it
All calculations use Swiss Ephemeris on sidereal Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa, the standard Indian classical convention. Sunrise/sunset for your city are computed from the local latitude/longitude + timezone, not approximated. Rahu Kaal, Gulika Kaal, Abhijit, and Choghadiya windows are derived from that local sunrise/sunset — they will not match tables that hardcode Mumbai-only or Delhi-only times.
