पञ्चाङ्ग — Amsterdam, Netherlands · January 28, 2015 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 any of 147,073 cities worldwide · ?format=json
🪷 आज: मकर सङ्क्रान्ति — Makara Saṅkrānti (Uttarāyaṇa)
Sun enters Capricorn; Uttarāyaṇa (north-going) begins. Bhīṣma's chosen mahaprasthāna time.

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 11.7 · Chapter 11 · विश्वरूपदर्शनयोग · Viśvarūpa-Darśana-Yoga
इहैकस्थं जगत्कृत्स्नं पश्याद्य सचराचरम्।

मम देहे गुडाकेश यच्चान्यद्द्रष्टुमिच्छसि।।11.7।।
"11.7 Here in Me living as one, O Arjuna, behold the whole universe, movable and immovable, and anything else that thou wouldst see!" — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 11.7's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Māgha (Māgha Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2072 Kīlaka
Śaka Saṁvat: 1937 Manmatha
Bengali Saṁvat: 1422
Malayalam Era: 1191
Nanakshahi: 546
Solar Month: Makara (Tai)
Ṛtu (Season): Śiśira (Winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Navamī (9/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Bharaṇī Pada 3
योग (Yoga)Śubha
करण (Karaṇa)Bālava
वार (Vāra)Budhavāra (Wednesday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya283.72°MakaraŚravaṇa P2
चन्द्र Candra24.01°MeṣaBharaṇī P4
मङ्गल Maṅgala317.88°KumbhaŚatabhiṣā P4
बुध Budha289.08°MakaraŚravaṇa P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati114.06°KarkaAśleṣā P3
शुक्र Śukra306.25°KumbhaDhaniṣṭhā P4
शनि Śani218.92°VṛścikaAnurādhā P2

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)08:29 UTC+1
Sūryāsta (Sunset)17:18 UTC+1
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)12:53 UTC+1
Candrodaya (Moonrise)11:55 UTC+1
Candrāsta (Moonset)03:14 UTC+1
Dinamāna (Day Duration)8 Hours 49 Mins 10 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)15 Hours 10 Mins 50 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta07:18 – 07:53
Prātaḥ Sandhyā07:45 – 08:29
Abhijit Muhūrta12:36 – 13:11
Vijaya Muhūrta14:22 – 14:57
Godhūli Muhūrta17:06 – 17:30
Sāyāhna Sandhyā17:18 – 17:40
Amṛta Kāla17:03 – 18:48
Niśīta Muhūrta00:36 – 01:11

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla12:53 – 14:00
Yamaganda09:35 – 10:41
Gulika Kāla11:47 – 12:53
Varjyam08:51 – 09:05
Dur Muhūrta 10:32 – 10:50

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): North (Uttara)
Candra Vāsa: East
Rāhu Vāsa: South-West
Ānandādi Yoga: Padma (Auspicious)
Drik Ṛtu: Śiśira (Winter) (Drik)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Drik Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
Vedic Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa

⭐ 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 Labha08:29 – 09:35 (auspicious)
Day-2 Amṛta09:35 – 10:41 (auspicious)
Day-3 Kāla10:41 – 11:47 (inauspicious)
Day-4 Śubha11:47 – 12:53 (auspicious)
Day-5 Roga12:53 – 14:00 (inauspicious)
Day-6 Udveg14:00 – 15:06 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Chala15:06 – 16:12 (neutral)
Day-8 Labha16:12 – 17:18 (auspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Udveg17:18 – 19:12 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Chala19:12 – 21:06 (neutral)
Night-3 Labha21:06 – 23:00 (auspicious)
Night-4 Amṛta23:00 – 00:53 (auspicious)
Night-5 Kāla00:53 – 02:47 (inauspicious)
Night-6 Śubha02:47 – 04:41 (auspicious)
Night-7 Roga04:41 – 06:35 (inauspicious)
Night-8 Udveg06:35 – 08:29 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

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

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

6 steps · graha walk
Budhavāra (Wednesday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Discrimination + BG 2.41 (vyavasāyātmikā buddhi).

🌌 Cosmic-Historical Resonance

Today's Śukla Navamī + Bharaṇī alignment also occurred on:
-1626101-04-03Bhagavān Rāma's birth at Ayodhyā (same Śukla Navamī)

🌌 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 Year5116 · Kali-5116
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1868585.27 · 5116.0 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2457050.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)24.0636° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)97.59° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 9/30)
🪷 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 (24.0636°) · declination -18.32° · EoT -12.97 min · verified ±1 min vs DrikpanchangLineage: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:2015-01-28 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)