Pick a muhurta from the daily panchang
Read the day's auspicious and inauspicious windows and rising signs, then search ahead for a yoga, tithi or karana.
3 min · 5 steps
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Set the day
Go to Tools → Panchanga. The Panchang tab starts from the date and place in the header. Previous day, Today and Next day move the panchang to another day without changing the chart; Back to the chart's date returns to it.
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Check the special yogas
Special yogas on this day splits the day's yogas into Auspicious and Inauspicious. Hover over a yoga for its exact window and a short description.
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Read the muhurtas
The Muhurta table lists the auspicious windows (Brahma, Abhijit, Vijaya, Godhuli and Nishita muhurtas, the two sandhyas and Amrit Kalam) and, in red, the ones to avoid: Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda, Gulika Kaal and Dur Muhurtam.
Balam, Nivas & Shool gives Chandrabalam, Tarabalam, Disha Shool, Agnivasa and Shivavasa.
The Panchang and Muhurta tables, with the inauspicious windows in red - 4
Follow the rising sign
Udaya Lagna at the bottom shows which sign rises when through the day. The Panchang table beside the muhurtas gives the five limbs with their end times, the month and samvats, and sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset.
Udaya Lagna showing each rising sign through the day - 5
Search ahead
Open Element Search. Choose the Element (Special yoga, Tithi, Nitya yoga or Karana) and its Name; special yogas are grouped into Auspicious and Inauspicious. Set From and To, up to two years apart, and select Search.
Only when it also falls on narrows the search to a tithi, a weekday or both. The first occurrence is shown on top. The table below lists every window with its day, when it begins and ends, and how long it lasts, in the local time of the place.
Element Search listing every Shukla Ekadashi window
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