Daily Panchang — Tithi, Nakshatra, Chogadiya & Shubh Muhurat

What is the Panchang?

Panchang means “five limbs” (pancha + anga). It is the Vedic almanac that describes a single day through five measurements taken from the positions of the Sun and Moon. Together they tell you the character of the day — which hours support a new beginning, and which are better spent waiting.

• •Tithi — the lunar day, measured by the angular distance between Sun and Moon
• •Vara — the weekday, each ruled by a planet
• •Nakshatra — the lunar mansion the Moon occupies, one of 27
• •Yoga — one of 27 combinations derived from the combined Sun–Moon longitude
• •Karana — a half-tithi; there are 11 in the cycle

Chogadiya: reading the hours

Chogadiya divides daylight and night into eight slots each. Four are considered favourable — Amrit, Shubh, Labh and Char — and three are avoided for new work: Rog, Kaal and Udveg. Because the slots follow sunrise and sunset, they shift with your location and the season, which is why a Chogadiya table calculated for another city is of little use.

Rahu Kaal and other inauspicious windows

Rahu Kaal is a roughly ninety-minute period each day, its timing set by the weekday and local sunrise, traditionally avoided for beginning anything important. Yamaganda and Gulika Kaal work the same way. None of them make a day “bad” — they simply mark hours the tradition suggests you step around.

Finding a Shubh Muhurat

A Shubh Muhurat is an auspicious window chosen for a specific act — a housewarming, a purchase, signing a contract, starting a journey. Selecting one means combining the day's Tithi and Nakshatra with the favourable Chogadiya slots and avoiding Rahu Kaal. 101 Pandit does that combination for your exact location and shows the resulting windows.