पञ्चाङ्ग — Atlanta, USA · October 13, 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
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🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 2.31 · Chapter 2 · सांख्ययोग · Sāṅkhya-Yoga
स्वधर्ममपि चावेक्ष्य न विकम्पितुमर्हसि।

धर्म्याद्धि युद्धाछ्रेयोऽन्यत्क्षत्रियस्य न विद्यते।।2.31।।
"2.31 Thou must look at thy duty. Nothing can be more welcome to a soldier than a righteous war. Therefore to waver in this resolve is unworthy, O Arjuna!" — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 2.31's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Kārtika (Kārtika Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2055 Khara
Śaka Saṁvat: 1920 Bahudhānya
Bengali Saṁvat: 1405
Malayalam Era: 1174
Nanakshahi: 529
Solar Month: Kanyā (Puraṭṭāsi)
Ṛtu (Season): Śarad (Autumn)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī (23/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Punarvasu Pada 3
योग (Yoga)Śiva
करण (Karaṇa)Kaulava
वार (Vāra)Maṅgalavāra (Tuesday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya175.67°KanyāCitrā P1
चन्द्र Candra92.65°KarkaPunarvasu P4
मङ्गल Maṅgala129.55°SiṃhaMaghā P3
बुध Budha187.54°TulāSvātī P1
गुरु Bṛhaspati325.96°KumbhaPūrva Bhādrapadā P2
शुक्र Śukra171.30°KanyāHasta P4
शनि Śani7.10°MeṣaAśvinī P3

☀️ Atlanta, USA — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · UTC-5)

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)06:40 UTC-5
Sūryāsta (Sunset)18:07 UTC-5
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)12:23 UTC-5
Candrodaya (Moonrise)23:49 UTC-5
Candrāsta (Moonset)13:53 UTC-5
Dinamāna (Day Duration)11 Hours 27 Mins 01 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)12 Hours 32 Mins 59 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta05:08 – 05:54
Prātaḥ Sandhyā05:42 – 06:40
Abhijit Muhūrta12:00 – 12:46
Vijaya Muhūrta14:18 – 15:03
Godhūli Muhūrta17:55 – 18:19
Sāyāhna Sandhyā18:07 – 18:35
Amṛta Kāla17:52 – 19:37
Niśīta Muhūrta00:00 – 00:46

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla15:15 – 16:41
Yamaganda09:31 – 10:57
Gulika Kāla12:23 – 13:49
Varjyam07:08 – 07:27
Dur Muhūrta 09:20 – 09:43

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): North (Uttara)
Candra Vāsa: South-West
Rāhu Vāsa: North
Ānandādi Yoga: Lumba (Auspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Śarad (Autumn) (tropical)
Vedic Ṛtu: Varṣā (Monsoon)
Tropical Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana
Vedic Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

Favorable Nakshatras (Tara Bala, 15/27):
Aśvinī · Bharaṇī · Kṛttikā · Puṣya · Aśleṣā · Maghā · Pūrva Phalgunī · Uttara Phalgunī · Anurādhā · Jyeṣṭhā · Mūla · Pūrva Āṣāḍhā · Uttara Āṣāḍhā · Uttara Bhādrapadā · Revatī
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12):
Meṣa · Vṛṣabha · Karka · Kanyā · Dhanu · Makara

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Roga06:40 – 08:05 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Udveg08:05 – 09:31 (inauspicious)
Day-3 Chala09:31 – 10:57 (neutral)
Day-4 Labha10:57 – 12:23 (auspicious)
Day-5 Amṛta12:23 – 13:49 (auspicious)
Day-6 Kāla13:49 – 15:15 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Śubha15:15 – 16:41 (auspicious)
Day-8 Roga16:41 – 18:07 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Kāla18:07 – 19:41 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Śubha19:41 – 21:15 (auspicious)
Night-3 Roga21:15 – 22:49 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Udveg22:49 – 00:23 (inauspicious)
Night-5 Chala00:23 – 01:57 (neutral)
Night-6 Labha01:57 – 03:31 (auspicious)
Night-7 Amṛta03:31 – 05:05 (auspicious)
Night-8 Kāla05:05 – 06:40 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 33.749°
Longitude: -84.388°
Timezone: UTC+-5

🚶 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-Historical Resonance

Today's Kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī + Punarvasu alignment also occurred on:
-3226-07-09Bhagavān Krishna's birth at Mathurā (same Kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī)
-1626101-04-03Bhagavān Rāma's birth at Ayodhyā (same Punarvasu)

🌌 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)1862634.27 · 5099.7 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2451099.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.8360° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)273.84° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 23/30)
🪷 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 (23.8360°) · declination -7.63° · EoT 14.44 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:1998-10-13 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)