The hour and a half each day that the tradition sets aside as unsuitable for beginning anything new — a journey, a purchase, a signature. It falls at a different time each weekday and shifts with sunrise, so it is different in every city.
The day is divided into eight equal parts between sunrise and sunset. Rahu Kaal takes the second part on Monday, the seventh on Tuesday, the fifth on Wednesday, the sixth on Thursday, the fourth on Friday, the third on Saturday and the eighth on Sunday.
Rahu Kaal is a daily observance, not a verdict on the day. Work already under way is not affected by it; the tradition asks only that nothing new be started in it. Yamaganda and Gulika Kaal are two further periods observed in the same way, and are shown alongside. All three are calculated from the actual sunrise and sunset for the city, not from a fixed clock.
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