Day begins at sunrise. Night begins at sunset. A rhythm that changes with the season.
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Your sunrise cycle
Move through the day and night
☾ Moon above horizon
Kapha → Pitta → Vāta in each half. Shown as equal thirds of actual daylight and night.
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A week in the light
Sunrise → sunset
Each tile opens its sunrise cycle. Rise and set times are Bengaluru references.
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Tiles represent sunrise cycles that overlap this lunar month. A final interval before dawn belongs to the preceding sunrise cycle. Neighbouring months may share a cycle; precise tithi intervals remain available in Tithi.
A year lived through six ṛtus
Follow the months. Observe your place.
These seasons follow the traditional month-name pairs in this Amānta calendar. Bengaluru’s rain, warmth, and cool mornings have their own local rhythm.
Daylight through this ṛtu
Carry the season into daily life
Seasonal reflections are editorial invitations informed by ṛtucaryā. They are not a personal doṣa assessment or a prescribed seasonal treatment.
Pramāṇa · sources & conventions
One calendar. Several carefully named layers.
The sky timings come from the verified Bengaluru Tithi calendar. The Ayurvedic names offer a traditional framework for attending to time. They are not measurements of your physiology.
1 · A day begins at sunrise
Dina runs from the published local sunrise to sunset. Rātri runs from sunset to the next sunrise. Before dawn, “Now” belongs to the cycle that began the previous morning. Both bands use the same elapsed-time scale, so their proportions change with the date.
Rise and set values retain the Tithi reference’s minute precision. A moonrise or moonset can fall in daylight, after midnight, or outside the selected cycle. A moon-above-horizon interval does not promise visible moonlight.
Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya, Sūtrasthāna 1.8 places Kapha at the beginning, Pitta in the middle, and Vāta at the end of day and night. Here each daylight and night interval is divided into three equal parts. That arithmetic is this calendar’s interpretation of the textual beginning–middle–end sequence; it is not a universal fixed 6–10–2 clock or a biological test.
Brāhma-muhūrta is displayed from the dated pañcāṅga source for the morning at the end of this cycle. Source conventions can differ from the NIA terminology’s fourth-to-second ghaṭikā before sunrise (96–48 minutes using a 24-minute ghaṭikā). It is shown as a reference window, not a universal instruction to shorten sleep.
Vasanta: Caitra–Vaiśākha; Grīṣma: Jyeṣṭha–Āṣāḍha; Varṣā: Śrāvaṇa–Bhādrapada; Śarad: Āśvina–Kārtika; Hemanta: Mārgaśīrṣa–Pauṣa; Śiśira: Māgha–Phālguna. We apply these month names to the existing Amānta boundaries. Adhika Jyeṣṭha retains the Jyeṣṭha association; it does not create a seventh season.
These are calendar associations, not weather forecasts. NCERT notes regional differences, including South India. The CCRAS seasonal-regimen brochure uses different indicative mid-month ranges; this app does not present lunar boundaries as its precise prescribed regimen dates.
Traditional autumn does not guarantee dry skies in Bengaluru. Observe the actual weather when choosing shade, warmth, rest, or an outdoor activity. The calendar does not read a live weather feed.
Human circadian timing responds to light exposure. That finding does not validate the doṣa divisions shown here. The traditional model and modern measurements remain distinct.
Two complete Hindu years are available: Parābhava 1948 (including Adhika Jyeṣṭha) and Plavaṅga 1949. The last sunrise cycle uses the final date’s verified following sunrise; it does not add a new lunar month. Notes and intentions stay in this browser. No account, analytics, or cloud sync is used.