Term
Gulika Kalamगुलिककाल
Inauspicious period
A daily inauspicious window associated with Gulika, a sub-planet derived from Saturn. Calculated via the same 8-part day division as Rahu Kalam and Yamaganda, with its position varying by weekday.
Gulika Kalam — also called Mandi — is the third of the inauspicious day-parts, with Rahu Kalam and Yamaganda. It is named for Gulika, an upagraha or “sub-planet” — a calculated shadow point traditionally regarded as the offspring of Saturn, and so carrying a Saturnine, obstructive character.
The kalam is obtained the same way as the other two: the daytime, sunrise to sunset, is divided into eight equal parts, and the part assigned to Gulika is fixed by the weekday — on Saturday, Saturn’s own day, it falls in the very first part after sunrise. Each table is independent, so the three inauspicious windows never coincide on the same day.
SahiKundli computes the window from the location’s real sunrise and sunset and reports its start and end in local time, presented as reference information rather than instruction. (Gulika also has a separate use in chart work, as a calculated point; here the term refers specifically to the daily kalam.) See Day-part timings for the weekday tables.