Considered inauspicious — associated with obstacles and risk; caution is advised for hazardous undertakings. This page lists every Atiganda Yoga in 2026 with its begin and end timings for your location.
Name: great danger or affliction
Atiganda combines *ati* (excessive) with *ganda* (a knot or danger), giving a name that reads plainly as "great affliction." It is one of the nine Yogas classical Muhurta treats as inauspicious, and it is specifically associated with risk and accident rather than with milder forms of delay.
Because of that association, texts recommend particular caution around Atiganda for anything hazardous — travel by difficult routes, dealings with sharp tools or fire, and undertakings where an accident would be costly. It is not treated as uniformly ruinous, but as a Yoga in which risk deserves extra weight.
Its name combines "excessive" with "danger," and Muhurta texts read it as a Yoga under which accidents and setbacks are more likely than under most others. That is why caution around hazardous activity — travel, fire, sharp tools — is specifically recommended during it.
A Nitya Yoga is one of 27 periods based on the sum (not the difference, as with Tithi) of the Sun's and Moon's longitudes, each 13°20' wide. It is distinct from the special Muhurat Yogas also listed under /yogas (like Ravi Yoga or Sarvartha Siddhi Yoga) — those are formed by a combination of Tithi, Nakshatra, and Vaara, whereas a Nitya Yoga is one of the five ever-present core elements of the Panchang.
