पञ्चाङ्ग — Boston, USA · January 14, 2006 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: 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 18.2 · Chapter 18 · मोक्षसंन्यासयोग · Mokṣa-Sannyāsa-Yoga
श्री भगवानुवाच

काम्यानां कर्मणां न्यासं संन्यासं कवयो विदुः।

सर्वकर्मफलत्यागं प्राहुस्त्यागं विचक्षणाः।।18.2।।
"18.2 Lord Shri Krishna replied: The sages say that renunciation means forgoing an action which springs from desire; and relinquishing means the surrender of its fruit." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 18.2's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Pauṣa (Pauṣa Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2063 Vikāri
Śaka Saṁvat: 1928 Vyaya
Bengali Saṁvat: 1413
Malayalam Era: 1182
Nanakshahi: 537
Solar Month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)
Ṛtu (Season): Hemanta (Pre-winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Pūrṇimā (15/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Punarvasu Pada 3
योग (Yoga)Vaidhṛti
करण (Karaṇa)Bava
वार (Vāra)Śanivāra (Saturday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya269.78°DhanuUttara Āṣāḍhā P1
चन्द्र Candra85.64°MithunaPunarvasu P2
मङ्गल Maṅgala20.94°MeṣaBharaṇī P3
बुध Budha261.72°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati201.92°TulāViśākhā P1
शुक्र Śukra269.49°DhanuUttara Āṣāḍhā P1
शनि Śani104.90°KarkaPuṣya P4

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)07:12 UTC-5
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:35 UTC-5
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:53 UTC-5
Candrodaya (Moonrise)16:06 UTC-5
Candrāsta (Moonset)07:07 UTC-5
Dinamāna (Day Duration)9 Hours 23 Mins 14 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)14 Hours 36 Mins 46 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta05:57 – 06:34
Prātaḥ Sandhyā06:25 – 07:12
Abhijit Muhūrta11:34 – 12:12
Vijaya Muhūrta13:27 – 14:05
Godhūli Muhūrta16:23 – 16:47
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:35 – 16:58
Amṛta Kāla16:20 – 18:05
Niśīta Muhūrta23:34 – 00:12

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla09:32 – 10:43
Yamaganda13:04 – 14:14
Gulika Kāla07:12 – 08:22
Varjyam07:35 – 07:50
Dur Muhūrta 09:23 – 09:42

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): East (Pūrva)
Candra Vāsa: South
Rāhu Vāsa: East
Ānandādi Yoga: Dhūmra (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):
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 · Mithuna · Siṃha · Vṛścika · Dhanu · Mīna

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Kāla07:12 – 08:22 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Śubha08:22 – 09:32 (auspicious)
Day-3 Roga09:32 – 10:43 (inauspicious)
Day-4 Udveg10:43 – 11:53 (inauspicious)
Day-5 Chala11:53 – 13:04 (neutral)
Day-6 Labha13:04 – 14:14 (auspicious)
Day-7 Amṛta14:14 – 15:24 (auspicious)
Day-8 Kāla15:24 – 16:35 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Labha16:35 – 18:24 (auspicious)
Night-2 Amṛta18:24 – 20:14 (auspicious)
Night-3 Kāla20:14 – 22:04 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Śubha22:04 – 23:53 (auspicious)
Night-5 Roga23:53 – 01:43 (inauspicious)
Night-6 Udveg01:43 – 03:32 (inauspicious)
Night-7 Chala03:32 – 05:22 (neutral)
Night-8 Labha05:22 – 07:12 (auspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 42.3601°
Longitude: -71.0589°
Timezone: UTC+-5

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

7 steps · graha walk
Śanivāra (Saturday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Tapas + endurance + BG 17.14-19.

🌌 Cosmic-Historical Resonance

Today's Śukla Pūrṇimā + Punarvasu alignment also occurred on:
-3137-10-04Mahābhārata Day 1 (Bhagavad Gītā delivered) (same Śukla Pūrṇimā)
-1626101-04-03Bhagavān Rāma's birth at Ayodhyā (same Punarvasu)
-0562-04-11Bhagavān Buddha's birth at Lumbinī (same Śukla Pūrṇimā)

🌌 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 Year5107 · Kali-5107
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1865284.27 · 5107.0 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2453749.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.9373° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)177.07° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 15/30)
🪷 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 (23.9373°) · declination -21.35° · EoT -9.00 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:2006-01-14 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)