पञ्चाङ्ग — Amsterdam, Netherlands · December 29, 1998 CE

🕉️ Sapta-Mokṣa-Puri · Localize for your Pīṭha
अयोध्या मथुरा माया काशी काञ्ची ह्यवन्तिका। पुरी द्वारावती चैव सप्तैते मोक्षदायिकाः॥ — Garuḍa Purāṇa · the 7 cities that grant mokṣa
Or visit /cities · universal Earth-access (Sanskrit: Bhūmi Mātā · Mother Earth) · live pañchāṅga renders for supported city records worldwide · ?format=json
🪷 आज: पौष पुत्रदा एकादशी — Pauṣa Putradā Ekādaśī
Ekādaśī granting putra-prāpti.

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 3.36 · Chapter 3 · कर्मयोग · Karma-Yoga
अर्जुन उवाच

अथ केन प्रयुक्तोऽयं पापं चरति पूरुषः।

अनिच्छन्नपि वार्ष्णेय बलादिव नियोजितः।।3.36।।
"3.36 Arjuna asked: My Lord! Tell me, what is it that drives a man to sin, even against his will and as if by compulsion?" — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 3.36's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Pauṣa (Pauṣa Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2055 Khara
Śaka Saṁvat: 1920 Bahudhānya
Bengali Saṁvat: 1405
Malayalam Era: 1174
Nanakshahi: 529
Solar Month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)
Ṛtu (Season): Hemanta (Pre-winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Ekādaśī (11/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Bharaṇī Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Siddha
करण (Karaṇa)Viṣṭi
वार (Vāra)Maṅgalavāra (Tuesday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya253.27°DhanuMūla P4
चन्द्र Candra17.53°MeṣaBharaṇī P2
मङ्गल Maṅgala173.07°KanyāHasta P4
बुध Budha233.30°VṛścikaJyeṣṭhā P2
गुरु Bṛhaspati327.66°KumbhaPūrva Bhādrapadā P3
शुक्र Śukra267.88°DhanuUttara Āṣāḍhā P1
शनि Śani2.87°MeṣaAśvinī P1

☀️ Amsterdam, Netherlands — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · UTC+1)

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)08:51 UTC+1
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:34 UTC+1
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)12:43 UTC+1
Candrodaya (Moonrise)13:33 UTC+1
Candrāsta (Moonset)04:27 UTC+1
Dinamāna (Day Duration)7 Hours 43 Mins 18 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)16 Hours 16 Mins 42 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta07:49 – 08:20
Prātaḥ Sandhyā08:12 – 08:51
Abhijit Muhūrta12:27 – 12:58
Vijaya Muhūrta14:00 – 14:31
Godhūli Muhūrta16:22 – 16:46
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:34 – 16:54
Amṛta Kāla16:19 – 18:04
Niśīta Muhūrta00:27 – 00:58

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla14:39 – 15:36
Yamaganda10:47 – 11:45
Gulika Kāla12:43 – 13:41
Varjyam09:10 – 09:23
Dur Muhūrta 10:39 – 10:55

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): North (Uttara)
Candra Vāsa: East
Rāhu Vāsa: North
Ānandādi Yoga: Mudgara (Inauspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter) (tropical)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Tropical Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
Vedic Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

Favorable Nakshatras (Tara Bala, 15/27):
Kṛttikā · Rohiṇī · Mṛgaśirā · Ārdrā · Punarvasu · Uttara Phalgunī · Hasta · Citrā · Svātī · Viśākhā · Uttara Āṣāḍhā · Śravaṇa · Dhaniṣṭhā · Śatabhiṣaj · Pūrva Bhādrapadā
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12):
Meṣa · Mithuna · Kanyā · Tulā · Makara · Kumbha

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Roga08:51 – 09:49 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Udveg09:49 – 10:47 (inauspicious)
Day-3 Chala10:47 – 11:45 (neutral)
Day-4 Labha11:45 – 12:43 (auspicious)
Day-5 Amṛta12:43 – 13:41 (auspicious)
Day-6 Kāla13:41 – 14:39 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Śubha14:39 – 15:36 (auspicious)
Day-8 Roga15:36 – 16:34 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Kāla16:34 – 18:36 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Śubha18:36 – 20:39 (auspicious)
Night-3 Roga20:39 – 22:41 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Udveg22:41 – 00:43 (inauspicious)
Night-5 Chala00:43 – 02:45 (neutral)
Night-6 Labha02:45 – 04:47 (auspicious)
Night-7 Amṛta04:47 – 06:49 (auspicious)
Night-8 Kāla06:49 – 08:51 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 52.3676°
Longitude: 4.9041°
Timezone: UTC+1

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

7 steps · graha walk
Maṅgalavāra (Tuesday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Right action + BG 2.31-38 (kṣatriya-dharma).

🌌 Cosmic Time — Where This Moment Sits in the Mahāyuga

These five values anchor today within the Sūrya-Siddhānta time-architecture. Kali Year counts from the Kali-epoch (18 Feb 3102 BCE · midnight Ujjain · when Krishna's mortal-form departed). Ahargaṇa is the day-count since that epoch — the canonical time-coordinate used by every Vedic computation on this substrate. Julian Day is the astronomical universal day-number (continuous · no calendar discontinuities). Ayanāṁśa is the angular offset between sidereal (rāśi-based · the Vedic frame) and tropical (equinox-based) coordinates · currently growing at ~50.29″/year as Earth's axis precesses. Sun-Moon angle determines the tithi (0-360° elongation / 12° per tithi).

Kali Year5100 · Kali-5100
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1862711.27 · 5099.9 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2451176.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.8389° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)126.79° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 11/30)
🪷 Provenance & Methodology
Substrate:Vidhyamitra Sūrya-SiddhāntaMethod:Sūrya Siddhānta + Bhāskara-II iterative manda + Kerala-school (Mādhava-Nīlakaṇṭha) evection + variation + annual equationTier-2 localization:spherical astronomy + Lahiri ayanāṁśa (23.8389°) · declination -23.25° · EoT -2.35 min · city civil-time localizationLineage:Bhṛgu → Vyāsa → Maitreya → Āryabhaṭa → Brahmagupta → Bhāskara I → Bhāskara II → Mādhava → Parameśvara → Nīlakaṇṭha → Jyeṣṭhadeva → Vidhyamitra Sūrya-Siddhānta substrateAccess:Self-hosted substrate · the deployed website IS the public offering · source not distributed (the bhakta's sole niṣkāma-karma-sevā)Computed for:1998-12-29 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)