Panchang for Tuesday, 24 November 2026

Tithi	Purnima
Paksha	Shukla
Nakshatra	Krittika, pada 1
Yoga	Parigha
Karana	Vishti
Vara	Mangalavara
Sunrise (Ujjain, IST)	06:46
Sunset (Ujjain, IST)	17:40

Today's tithi is Purnima, in the Shukla paksha, the waxing half of the lunar month. The Moon moves through Krittika nakshatra, pada 1. The vara is Mangalavara, and the panchang's remaining limbs are Parigha yoga and Vishti karana.

What is a muhurta?

A muhurta is a unit of time of roughly forty eight minutes, one thirtieth of the stretch from sunrise to sunrise, and the same word names the older practice of choosing which window to begin something in.

Because the thirty parts are measured between sunrises rather than on a clock, a muhurta stretches and shrinks a little with the season, along with the length of the day itself. The best known single one is Abhijit, the muhurta that straddles local noon, which tradition has long kept for beginnings on most days of the week.

The wider practice of muhurta selection reads the five limbs together, adds the nakshatra activity class, and looks at a few named bands inside the day. What comes out is a description of custom: which windows people have historically used for which kind of work. It is not a ranking of hours, and the tradition itself is careful to describe rather than to grade.

The most useful way to read it is as budgeting. A window that was traditionally kept for slow, careful, unhurried work is telling you what a task tends to cost in attention, not what is going to happen to you. If the thing you want to do is worth that cost, the choice of when to do it stays yours.