Find the most auspicious timing (muhurta) for Grahanam (Solar & Lunar Eclipse). This module weighs the panchang factors — tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga and karana — against your chosen event and returns the best windows with the reasoning shown.
Grahanam (Solar & Lunar Eclipse) is a panchangam reading — the five-limbed Vedic calendar for the day: tithi, weekday, nakshatra, yoga and karana, plus the day's dark windows and best hours.
The panchangam is the backbone of Vedic time — five limbs (pancha-anga) computed from the sun-moon geometry, refined in the Siddhantas and the regional almanacs. Every temple town published its own; the five-limb structure has stayed constant for two millennia.
The day's almanac was read aloud at the temple each morning. Rahu Kaal, Yamagandam and Gulika were the windows to avoid; Abhijit and Amrita the ones to catch. Work began after the panchangam, never before.
| 1 | Surya — Sun | Soul, vitality, father, authority — the king of the planetary cabinet. |
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| 2 | Chandra — Moon | Mind, mother, emotion, the public — the fastest graha and the daily sky's clock. |
| 3 | Mangala — Mars | Energy, courage, siblings, land — the commander; harsh but decisive. |
| 4 | Budha — Mercury | Intellect, speech, trade, skill — the prince who takes the color of his company. |
| 5 | Guru — Jupiter | Wisdom, children, fortune, the guru himself — the great benefic. |
| 6 | Shukra — Venus | Love, luxury, arts, the spouse in a man's chart — the counselor of pleasures. |
| 7 | Shani — Saturn | Discipline, labor, time, the long game — the stern teacher whose tests endure. |
| 8 | Rahu | The north node — ambition, the foreign, the obsessive; a shadow that magnifies. |
| 9 | Ketu | The south node — release, the spiritual, the detached; a shadow that dissolves. |
The module computes the real panchangam for your place and date — not a static table — so the timings answer where you are, not where the almanac was printed.
Tithi (lunar day), vara (weekday), nakshatra (moon's star), yoga (sun+moon longitude) and karana (half-tithi).
A daily ~90-minute window assigned to Rahu by weekday — the tradition avoids beginning new work in it.
They are computed from the sun and moon as seen from your place — sunrise, moonrise and the limb boundaries shift with latitude.
One of the astrology modules on GodOfAstro — the interactive universe built around your sky.
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