पञ्चाङ्ग — Birmingham, UK · January 4, 2026 CE

पञ्चाङ्ग सार — Core Five-Limb Snapshot

Tithi
Kṛṣṇa Pratipada
16/30 · Kṛṣṇa pakṣa
Nakshatra
Punarvasu
Pada 4 · 7/27
Yoga
Vaidhṛti
27/27
Karaṇa
Kaulava
half-tithi 31/60
Vāra
Ravivāra (Sunday)
weekday limb
Calendar context: Māgha (Māgha Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa) · Solar month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)

The day's tithi, nakṣatra, yoga and karaṇa are those at sunrise in Birmingham, UK, by the Sūrya Siddhānta (II.59-63).

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Māgha (Māgha Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2082 Kālayukta
Śaka Saṁvat: 1947 Viśvāvasu
Bengali Saṁvat: 1432
Malayalam Era: 1201
Nanakshahi: 557
Solar Month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)
Ṛtu (Season): Śiśira (Winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Pratipada (16/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Punarvasu Pada 4
योग (Yoga)Vaidhṛti
करण (Karaṇa)Kaulava
वार (Vāra)Ravivāra (Sunday)
🕉️ 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
🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 5.5 · Chapter 5 · कर्मसंन्यासयोग · Karma-Sannyāsa-Yoga
यत्सांख्यैः प्राप्यते स्थानं तद्योगैरपि गम्यते।

एकं सांख्यं च योगं च यः पश्यति स पश्यति।।5.5।।
"5.5 The level which is reached by wisdom is attained through right action as well. He who perceives that the two are one, knows the truth." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 5.5's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal, by the Sūrya Siddhānta)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya259.47°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P2
चन्द्र Candra91.25°KarkaPunarvasu P4
मङ्गल Maṅgala259.38°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P2
बुध Budha250.00°DhanuMūla P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati92.03°KarkaPunarvasu P4
शुक्र Śukra262.44°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P3
शनि Śani324.36°KumbhaPūrva Bhādrapadā P2

☀️ Birmingham, UK — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · UTC)

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)08:25 UTC
Sūryāsta (Sunset)15:51 UTC
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)12:08 UTC
Candrodaya (Moonrise)17:08 UTC
Candrāsta (Moonset)09:25 UTC
Dinamāna (Day Duration)7 Hours 26 Mins 47 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)16 Hours 33 Mins 13 Secs

काल-विभाग — Windows of the Day, with their Sources

Each window with the rule that makes it and its source; where a source characterises a window, its words are given. No window is labelled here.

WindowTimeRule · Source
Brahma Muhūrta06:12 – 07:18the 14th fifteenth of the night ending at this sunrise · Manusmṛti 4.92; Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Sūtra 2.1, with Aruṇadatta and Hemādri
  • Manusmṛti 4.92: "brāhme muhūrte budhyeta" (one should wake in the brāhma muhūrta and reflect on dharma and the Veda)
  • Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Sūtra 2.1: "brāhme muhūrta uttiṣṭhet svastho rakṣārtham āyuṣaḥ" (the healthy should rise then, to protect life)
  • Aruṇadatta: "rātreś caturdaśo muhūrto brāhmo muhūrtaḥ"; Hemādri: "rātreś copāntyo muhūrto brāhmaḥ" (wording through a journal article)
Abhijit Muhūrta11:53 – 12:23the 8th fifteenth of the day, around midday · Ṭikaṇikayātrā 3.7-8; Muhūrta-gaṇapati 83-86; Nārada-saṃhitā 9.4-5
  • Ṭikaṇikayātrā 3.8: "tena yānam apahāya dakṣiṇāṃ sarvadikṣv abhijit praśasyate" (under Abhijit, travel in every direction but the south is praised)
  • Muhūrta-gaṇapati 83-84: in Abhijit, even where faults exist, one may do all auspicious work except travel to the south
  • Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa 6.4.3 calls the midday muhūrta Vijaya ("yukto muhūrto vijayaḥ prāpto madhyaṃ divākaraḥ")
Godhūli15:45 – 15:5715 pala before and after the half-set Sun (the text's sunset is the Sun's centre on the horizon) · Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Vivāha 38 (citing the Jyotirnibandha); Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Vivāha 6.100-101
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi 6.100: "godhūliḥ sā munibhir uditā sarvakāryeṣu praśastā" (the sages declared godhūli praised for all works)
  • Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Vivāha 38: a lagna for marriage when no other good lagna is available
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54: for travel, godhūli except toward the west
Niśītha23:35 – 00:41the 8th fifteenth of the night: the middle of the night (not clock midnight) · Dharmasindhu; Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54
  • Dharmasindhu: niśītha is the middle of the night, finely the 8th muhūrta; the instant at which a tithi is taken for night observances
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54: for travel, niśītha except toward the north
Gulika Kālam14:00 – 14:56Saturn's eighth of the day: part 7 of 8, counted from Sun · Bṛhat-Parāśara-Horāśāstra ch. 3 (upagrahas)
  • Kālaprakāśikā ch. 34 (tr. N. P. Subramania Iyer, 1917): for harvest, trade, medical treatment and the study of the Vedas "Gulika has no evil force"; ch. 33 note: "Gulika is not considered inauspicious"
  • Phaladīpikā 25.20 (as a natal upagraha): Gulika acts like Saturn
Yamaghaṇṭaka (Yamagaṇḍa) Kālam12:08 – 13:04Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 5 of 8, counted from Sun · Bṛhat-Parāśara-Horāśāstra ch. 3 (upagrahas)
  • Kālaprakāśikā ch. 33: listed with Ardhapraharam and Kālan as periods to be set aside
  • Phaladīpikā 25.19-20 (as a natal upagraha): Yamakaṇṭaka acts like Jupiter, the strongest of the upagrahas at giving good
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi 1.37-39 counts a Yamaghaṇṭa among the faulty moments (duṣṭakṣaṇa), in sixteenths of the day: the second half of this eighth
Rāhu Kālam14:56 – 15:51part 8 of the day's 8 (Sun 8, Mon 2, Tue 7, Wed 5, Thu 6, Fri 4, Sat 3) · South Indian almanac table (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala); no verse found in BPHS, Bṛhatsaṃhitā, Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Nārada-saṃhitā, Phaladīpikā, Dharmasindhu, Nirṇayasindhu or Praśna-mārga · regional convention
  • Uttara-kālāmṛta 2.29 (post-16th century; read in P. S. Sastri's English): not to bathe in the sea during it. The editor: "Standard texts have no mention of it."

Not computed: Vijaya muhūrta as "the second half of the 7th muhūrta" (no source; Rāmāyaṇa 6.4.3 calls the midday muhūrta Vijaya (see Abhijit)); Amṛta kāla by weekday (no source for a weekday table; the amṛta-ghaṭikā of the sources is by nakṣatra and is not yet read from a primary text); Durmuhūrta (Muhūrtacintāmaṇi 1.38-39) (the weekday table is partly unreadable in the scans (Tuesday and Thursday)).

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla: West (Nārada-saṃhitā 33.5 (and Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 10): "na vrajet", one should not set out that way on that weekday)
Candra Vāsa: North (Nārada-saṃhitā 33.8: the rāśis from Meṣa in turn to the four quarters from the east; the Moon dwells in her rāśi's quarter)
Ānandādi Yoga: 7. Dhvaja (Punarvasu, counted from Aśvinī) (Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Śubhāśubha 23-26; Abhijit by Vivāha 55)
Not shown: Rāhu-vāsa by weekday: no classical verse found (Muhūrtacintāmaṇi has only the nakṣatra-based Pathi-Rāhu-cakra, Yātrā 18); an almanac convention, not shown.
Tropical Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter) (tropical)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Tropical Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
Vedic Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tārā & Candra-bala

Tārā: Counted from the janma star to the day's star, in three rounds of nine (Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Gocara 11-12); "tārā nāmasadṛkphalāḥ": each tārā gives fruit like its name (v.12). The day's star: Punarvasu.

1. JanmaPunarvasu · Viśākhā · Pūrva Bhādrapadā
2. SampatĀrdrā · Svātī · Śatabhiṣaj
3. VipatMṛgaśirā · Citrā · Dhaniṣṭhā
4. KṣemaRohiṇī · Hasta · Śravaṇa
5. PratyariKṛttikā · Uttara Phalgunī · Uttara Āṣāḍhā
6. SādhakaBharaṇī · Pūrva Phalgunī · Pūrva Āṣāḍhā
7. VadhaAśvinī · Maghā · Mūla
8. MaitraAśleṣā · Jyeṣṭhā · Revatī
9. AtimaitraPuṣya · Anurādhā · Uttara Bhādrapadā

Candra-bala: The Moon's house counted from the janma rāśi; the places of v.1 with their vedha houses, and in the bright half those of v.4 (Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Gocara 1-4). The Moon is in Karka. Not computed: the vedha of the v.4 places (the ṭīkā gives 6, 8, 4; not checked against a second edition).

Janma rāśiMoon's house · place · vedha
Meṣa4 · not a place of the verses
Vṛṣabha3 · v.1 · vedha house 9: none
Mithuna2 · not a place of the verses
Karka1 · v.1 · vedha house 5: none
Siṃha12 · not a place of the verses
Kanyā11 · v.1 · vedha house 8: none
Tulā10 · v.1 · vedha house 4: none
Vṛścika9 · not a place of the verses
Dhanu8 · not a place of the verses
Makara7 · v.1 · vedha house 2: Saturn, Rāhu
Kumbha6 · v.1 · vedha house 12: none
Mīna5 · not a place of the verses

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

An almanac convention of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra; no verse defining it was found in the classical muhūrta texts, and no verdict is added here.

Day-1 Udvega08:25 – 09:20
Day-2 Cara09:20 – 10:16
Day-3 Lābha10:16 – 11:12
Day-4 Amṛta11:12 – 12:08
Day-5 Kāla12:08 – 13:04
Day-6 Śubha13:04 – 14:00
Day-7 Roga14:00 – 14:56
Day-8 Udvega14:56 – 15:51

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Śubha15:51 – 17:56
Night-2 Roga17:56 – 20:00
Night-3 Udvega20:00 – 22:04
Night-4 Cara22:04 – 00:08
Night-5 Lābha00:08 – 02:12
Night-6 Amṛta02:12 – 04:16
Night-7 Kāla04:16 – 06:20
Night-8 Śubha06:20 – 08:25

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4862°
Longitude: -1.8904°
Timezone: UTC+0

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

6 steps · graha walk
Ravivāra (Sunday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Self-illumination + BG 4.1 (Sun-lineage of Gītā transmission).

🌌 Cosmic Time — Where This Moment Sits in the Mahāyuga

These five values locate the requested date inside this application's declared proleptic model. Kali Year uses 18 February 3102 BCE as a traditional epoch convention; that convention is not proof of Krishna's historical departure date. Ahargaṇa is this model's day-count from that epoch. Julian Day is a continuous astronomical day-number. Ayanāṁśa is the modelled sidereal/tropical angular offset. Sun-Moon angle determines the computed tithi (0-360° elongation / 12° per tithi).

Kali Year5127 · Kali-5127
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1872579.56 · 5126.9 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2461045.060954 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Sūrya Siddhānta III.9-10)22.9008° · the libration of the equinox, 27° either way, 600 turns in an Age
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)191.78° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 16/30)
🪷 Provenance & Methodology
Substrate:Vidhyamitra Sūrya-SiddhāntaMethod:Sūrya Siddhānta (Burgess 1860 text, no bīja): Sun and Moon by the equation of the apsis with the 24-sine tableTier-2 localization:the text's sunrise (II.59-63), ayanāṃśa (22.9008°, III.9-10) · declination -23.38° · EoT -0.35 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 seva surface · source not distributed (the bhakta's sole niṣkāma-karma-sevā)Computed for:2026-01-04 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)

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