Puducherry Panchang — Monday, January 3, 2028

On Monday, January 3, 2028 (Monday) in Puducherry, the tithi at sunrise is Saptami (Sukla Paksha) (day 7 of the lunar month). Tithi is the first of the panchang's five limbs — the Vedic lunar day, defined as every 12 degrees of angular separation between the moon and the sun. Because the moon moves against the sun at a slightly varying rate, one tithi lasts roughly 19 to 26 hours rather than a fixed 24, so a tithi can begin or end in the middle of a civil day. That is why every limb on this page is anchored to sunrise — the classical Vedic day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise — and why the tithi panel above lists the exact transition minutes for Puducherry on this date rather than a single label. Sukla Paksha is waxing (Shukla), the fortnight in which the moon grows brighter night by night. Named tithis carry the festivals and fasts of the Hindu month: Ekadashi (the 11th tithi of either paksha) is the universal fast day, Amavasya is the new moon and Purnima the full moon. For choosing a day for a new beginning, classical almanacs favour Pratipada, Dwitiya, Tritiya, Panchami, Shashthi, Dashami and Ekadashi, and counsel against the Rikta tithis (Chaturthi, Navami, Chaturdashi) and Amavasya. If the tithi changes during the day, this page shows both the sunrise tithi and the split point, so you can see which side of the change your chosen muhurat window falls on. The value is computed from the Swiss Ephemeris DE441 with the Surya Siddhanta panchanga library and cross-checked against drikpanchang.com to within ±1 minute; the full pipeline is documented on the /methodology/ page.

On Monday, January 3, 2028 the moon is in Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra. The nakshatras are the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astronomy — the ecliptic divided into 27 equal arcs of 13°20′ each, which the moon traverses in roughly one day per mansion. Nakshatra is the limb that carries the strongest personal weight: it names the birth-star of a janma kundli, and it is the first filter in classical muhurat selection, because the moon's mansion is read as the mood of the day for undertakings that begin in it. The nakshatra panel above gives the start and end times of the Purva Bhadrapada traversal in Puducherry, so you can see whether the mansion holds for the whole civil day or changes within it — a nakshatra change is a common reason two adjacent days read very differently even when their tithis are similar. Classical lists commonly count Pushya, Rohini, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha, Uttara Bhadrapada, Hasta, Chitra, Anuradha, Shravana and Revati among the favourable mansions for new work, and counsel caution for beginnings under Ashlesha, Jyeshtha and Mula. Treat those lists as a starting point rather than a verdict: for a wedding, griha pravesh or a major business launch the site recommends confirming the window with a local Jyotish practitioner who can read your own birth nakshatra. To see how Purva Bhadrapada combines with the other limbs for timing, open the per-city muhurat view at https://livepanchang.in/muhurta/puducherry/2028-01-03/.

For Monday, January 3, 2028 (Monday) in Puducherry, the most universally auspicious window is Abhijit Muhurat — the noon-centred window of roughly 96 minutes, traditionally called the victory-giving muhurat because it is held to neutralise minor inauspiciousness and needs no separate panchang check. The window to avoid is Rahu Kaal, the daily segment ruled by Rahu: the span from sunrise to sunset is divided into eight equal parts and one of them is Rahu's, with the position fixed by the weekday. Two further avoid-windows are Yama Ghantaka and Gulika Kala, ruled by Yama and Saturn respectively; like Rahu Kaal their segment position is set by the weekday and their exact clock times for Puducherry are computed on this page's muhurat view, alongside the Choghadiya and Hora tables. Choghadiya divides the day and night into eight slots each and labels every slot Amrit, Shubh, Labh, Char, Rog, Udveg or Kaal — the first four are auspicious, Rog and Udveg are to be avoided, and Kaal is neutral-to-avoid. Hora rotates the seven planetary hours hourly, beginning each weekday with its own lord's hora (Monday begins under Moon). Notice that sunrise here is 06:32 and sunset 17:57, so every one of these windows is local to Puducherry and shifts with the season. Use Abhijit for routine good starts, avoid Rahu Kaal and the Rikta tithis for anything important, and confirm life-event muhurats with a practitioner.

On Monday, January 3, 2028 the day-lord is Monday, ruled by Moon, and the remaining limbs are tithi Saptami (Sukla Paksha), nakshatra Purva Bhadrapada, yoga varIyas and karana gara. For a new venture or a first step, the classical sequence of checks is: choose a favourable tithi (Pratipada, Dwitiya, Tritiya, Panchami, Shashthi, Dashami, Ekadashi) over a Rikta tithi (Chaturthi, Navami, Chaturdashi) or Amavasya; avoid Rahu Kaal, Yama Ghantaka and Gulika Kala; prefer Abhijit Muhurat or one of the Amrit / Shubh / Labh Choghadiya slots; and let the day-lord's own character guide the kind of work — Jupiter's day and Venus's day suit beginnings and agreements, Mars's day suits competitive and construction work, Saturn's day suits endurance tasks rather than launches. The yoga on this date is varIyas and the karana is gara, both fine-grained modifiers that classical texts read alongside the tithi rather than in isolation. For a fast, Ekadashi of either paksha is the universal day, observed broadly across India; specific Ekadashis carry extra observances — Nirjala forbids even water, and Mokshada is held to be especially meritorious. Since the tithi here is anchored to sunrise in Puducherry and can change mid-day, check the tithi panel above before you decide which side of the change your observance or launch falls on. For major life events, consult a Jyotish practitioner with your birth details.

Live Panchang computes Puducherry's panchang from the Swiss Ephemeris in DE441 mode — the high-precision planetary engine used by professional astrologers — and derives the classical limbs with the open-source Surya Siddhanta panchanga library. Sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset come straight from the ephemeris for Puducherry's exact coordinates (latitude 11.9416°, longitude 79.8083°), and the tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana are then anchored to that local sunrise. Because sunrise differs by minutes between cities, the site publishes a separate page for each of its 121 Indian cities instead of one national almanac: the limbs are universal at a given instant, but the windows and day boundaries are local. Every value is cross-checked against drikpanchang.com, the most widely used reference almanac in India, to within ±1 minute before a page ships, and the golden windows (Rahu Kaal, Yamaganda, Gulika, Abhijit) are pinned to Drik's published times by automated regression tests. The pipeline is documented openly on the /methodology/ page, and the results are reviewed by Vaid-Pandit Kashmiri Lal Sharma, a BVB-Varanasi Jyotish Shastri named on the site rather than kept anonymous. No software replaces a human pandit for personal decisions, so for a wedding, griha pravesh or a major launch the site recommends confirming the window with a local practitioner. The daily pages themselves are free and need no account: there is no database and no server-side copy of your personal details.