Karana
Gara गर
Favours agriculture, sowing and building. Neutral for most other work.
- Number
- 5 of 11
- Type
- Movable (chara)
- Symbol
- Elephant
- Nature
- Mixed
- Occurrences per lunar month
- 8
- Typical duration
- About 10–13 hours
Where it falls in the month
Gara is one of the seven movable karanas, which cycle eight times across half-tithis 2 to 57 of every lunar month. It therefore comes round roughly every four days, at any hour — its position is set by the Moon's elongation from the Sun, not by the calendar.
How a karana is measured
A karana is six degrees of the Moon's elongation from the Sun — exactly half a tithi. Every tithi therefore contains two karanas, and every tithi boundary is also a karana boundary. Our engine computes the two independently and asserts they land on the same instant, which is how we know the boundary search is right.
See it live
Today's panchang
Check whether Gara is running right now on today's panchang for your city — with the exact time it begins and ends.