Brahma muhurta
Brahma muhurta is the period of about 48 minutes that ends roughly 48 minutes before sunrise: the 14th of the night’s 15 muhurtas. It is traditionally the best time for meditation, prayer and study.
Also known as: Brahma muhurat, Brahmamuhurtham, Brahma muhurtam
The night from sunset to sunrise is divided into 15 muhurtas. Brahma muhurta is the 14th, so it begins two muhurtas before sunrise and ends one muhurta before it. On a 12-hour night that means from about 1 hour 36 minutes to 48 minutes before sunrise; the window lengthens on long winter nights and shortens in summer.
Yoga and Ayurvedic texts recommend rising in this quiet, clear time for meditation, prayer, study and reflection, and many people do their daily practice, whether sadhana or music riyaz, in it.
It is a time for inner work rather than a muhurat for worldly events. Nor is it a fixed hour on the clock: it moves with sunrise through the year and from city to city.