Accuracy first — every position comes from DE440, NASA JPL's most precise planetary ephemeris.
Accuracy first — every position comes from DE440, NASA JPL's most precise planetary ephemeris.
Gulika Kaal, also called Maandi, is the third of the day's inauspicious windows. What sets it apart is not its arithmetic — that is the same as Rahu Kaal's — but the belief attached to it: what begins here is said to happen again.
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This is the whole character of the window. Anything started in it is held to recur, which makes it the wrong time for what you would not want to live through twice — a funeral rite, a dispute, a loan, a parting. The same belief runs the other way in some traditions, where the hour is chosen deliberately for what is meant to be repeated: sowing, laying in stores, beginning a course of study or of medicine. Both readings come from one idea, and a page that gives only the first has told you half of it.
Gulika is reckoned a son of Saturn, and most sources use the two names for the same thing. One distinction is worth knowing: many texts also use Gulika or Maandi for a calculated point placed in a birth chart, derived from this same window but treated as a sensitive degree rather than a time of day. This page is the window, not the point — if you have seen Maandi marked in a chart, that is the other one.
Gulika Kaal is one eighth of the daylight between sunrise and sunset, so it stretches in summer and shortens in winter, and it begins earlier or later depending on how far east or west you are. A fixed weekday timing is only ever right for the place it was worked out for. Change the city above and every row on this page changes with it.
Rahu Kaal and Yamaganda take two more of the same eight parts, each assigned by the weekday, and none of the three overlaps another. Abhijit, the brief auspicious muhurat around midday, sits among them — the one window of the day looked for rather than avoided. In Kerala and the wider south, Gulika is the one of the three watched most carefully.
The character of Gulika Kaal is repetition rather than harm, and that cuts both ways. What is begun in it is held to recur — which is the reason to keep a funeral rite, a dispute or a loan out of it, and equally the reason some traditions choose the hour deliberately for something meant to last. Reading it as simply a bad hour loses the distinction the belief actually makes. As with the other two windows, the timing itself is arithmetic and will agree with any source using your sunrise; what the hour is held to do is the tradition's reading of it.
19 September 2026 · Saturday
06:07 – 07:3906:07 am – 07:39 am
1h 32mPart 1 of 8
| Day | Gulika Kaal |
|---|---|
20 September 2026 · Sunday | 15:17 – 16:4803:17 pm – 04:48 pm1h 32m |
21 September 2026 · Monday | 13:45 – 15:1601:45 pm – 03:16 pm1h 31m |
22 September 2026 · Tuesday | 12:13 – 13:4412:13 pm – 01:44 pm1h 31m |
23 September 2026 · Wednesday | 10:42 – 12:1310:42 am – 12:13 pm1h 31m |
24 September 2026 · Thursday | 09:11 – 10:4209:11 am – 10:42 am1h 31m |
25 September 2026 · Friday | 07:41 – 09:1107:41 am – 09:11 am1h 30m |
26 September 2026 · Saturday | 06:11 – 07:4106:11 am – 07:41 am1h 30m |