Gowri Panjangam

Gowri Panjangam is a table containing 16 periods of approximately 1 1/2 hours, everyday. Of the 16 hours, the first 8 hour period refers to the day gowri and the latter half refers to the night gowri. The Gowri panjangam period chunks are each given a name and each of these times have a quality that affects actions that take place in them. Activities that are undertaken during bad gowri time are believed to create hindrances for the individual and the activity.

The Daily Gowri panjangam time generally starts with sunrise and ends with sunset. The night gowri panjangam starts at sunset and continues till sunrise the next day.

There are certain specially named Gowri panjangam periods that are considered auspicious. The auspicious gowri panjangam periods are Dhanam, Labam , Amritham , Sukham and uthyogam. The periods rogam,visham and choram are not that good.