Panchang for Monday, 5 October 2026

Tithi	Dashami
Paksha	Krishna
Nakshatra	Pushya, pada 2
Yoga	Shiva
Karana	Vanija
Vara	Somavara
Sunrise (Ujjain, IST)	06:19
Sunset (Ujjain, IST)	18:10

Today's tithi is Dashami, in the Krishna paksha, the waning half of the lunar month. The Moon moves through Pushya nakshatra, pada 2. The vara is Somavara, and the panchang's remaining limbs are Shiva yoga and Vanija karana.

What is Shiva yoga?

Shiva is the twentieth of the 27 nithya yogas, and the name is the ordinary Sanskrit adjective it comes from, meaning benign, kindly or well disposed.

The word is the same one that names the deity, and the tradition uses both senses lightly here. As a yoga it is one of the settled ones, and the classical associations are with calm, with study of a serious kind, with counsel and with anything undertaken in a quiet frame of mind.

Yogas move about one step a day against the twenty seven, so Shiva arrives roughly once a lunar month and never at the same time of day twice in a row. The panchang labels a day with whichever yoga was running at sunrise, which means a yoga that begins mid morning belongs to the following page.

Its practical shape is depth without urgency. Work that improves with an unhurried hour is exactly what the tradition puts here, and the offer is a shape for the day rather than a claim about it.