Panchang for Wednesday, 11 November 2026

Tithi	Dwitiya
Paksha	Shukla
Nakshatra	Anuradha, pada 4
Yoga	Atiganda
Karana	Kaulava
Vara	Budhavara
Sunrise (Ujjain, IST)	06:37
Sunset (Ujjain, IST)	17:43

Today's tithi is Dwitiya, in the Shukla paksha, the waxing half of the lunar month. The Moon moves through Anuradha nakshatra, pada 4. The vara is Budhavara, and the panchang's remaining limbs are Atiganda yoga and Kaulava karana.

What is Kaulava karana?

Kaulava is the third of the seven movable karanas, a six degree half of a tithi, and its name comes from kula, the family or clan, which is where its traditional associations sit.

The classical lists connect Kaulava with kinship, friendship, alliance and the ties that hold a group together, and the common lists give it to Mitra, a deity whose name is itself the word for friend and for a contract kept in good faith. Marriage and other formal joinings sit in this territory in the traditional literature.

Structurally it is the third step of the seven that repeat eight times through a lunar month. Every karana belongs to a specific half of a specific tithi, so the karana and the tithi are never independent readings, and Kaulava will always be found in the same positions of the cycle relative to Bava and Balava.

If you want a plain use for it, treat it as a marker for the relationship half of a task. Most work has one: the people who need telling, the person whose agreement makes the rest easy. This is the traditional slot for that half rather than for the technical one.