Panchang 24 August 2026: The Last Sawan Monday
This is the fourth Sawan Somvar, and it is the last one. Three are behind you, and none is left after today. The next Monday inside this month arrives in a year.
Today's Panchang
Shukla Dwadashi covers the whole day and does not end until 6:21 AM tomorrow. The Moon runs through Purva Ashadha until 8:28 PM, then enters Uttara Ashadha. Yoga is Preeti. Karana is Bava. Sunrise is 5:54 AM in Delhi and sunset 6:53 PM. The Moon is 84 percent lit and waxing.
Dwadashi is holding across two sunrises this time, today's and tomorrow's. A lunar day stretched that far is called a tithi vriddhi, a grown tithi. Nothing is wrong. The twelfth just gets counted on two days this year.
The Timing That Matters Today
Rahu Kaal runs 7:32 AM to 9:09 AM.
That is the third Sawan Monday in a row where Rahu Kaal sits on the hour most families keep the morning Shiv puja. It is not chance. Rahu Kaal is fixed by weekday, so every Monday of the year lands in roughly the same slot after sunrise. Make your water offering before 7:32 AM, or wait until after 9:09 AM. Brahma Muhurat, just before dawn, is clear and needs no compromise.
Two more windows to keep decisions out of: Yamaganda from 10:46 AM to 12:23 PM, and Gulika from 2:01 PM to 3:38 PM. Live times for today are on the panchang for 24 August 2026.
The Fourth Somvar
Bathe before sunrise. Offer water to a Shivling and place bilva leaves in threes. Chant Om Namah Shivaya one hundred and eight times. Keep one meal after sunset.
If you held all four Mondays, today closes the set. If one or two slipped, keep this one properly and the month still counts. Nobody is scoring it. A month finished gently beats a month abandoned in week two.
The full method and the Amanta dates sit on the Sawan 2026 guide.
Purva Ashadha, the Undefeated Star
The Moon spends almost the entire day in Purva Ashadha. The name means the former undefeated one. Its deity is Apas, the cosmic waters, and its ruling graha is Shukra (Venus).
It suits a last Monday. Purva Ashadha does not win by force. It wins the way water wins against rock, by staying at it long after the argument looks settled. That is what a vrat is. You did nothing dramatic on four Mondays. You kept your word four times.
Wearing the Bead on the Last Somvar
A Sawan Monday is the traditional day to put on a rudraksha for the first time, and after today the next one is a year out. Starting on a Somvar is living practice rather than anything the classical books set down. The Shiva Purana calls the five-faced bead Rudra himself and gives it the name kalagni, which is why most people begin there.
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