पञ्चाङ्ग — Boston, USA · July 6, 2008 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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🪷 आज: मिथुन सङ्क्रान्ति — Mithuna Saṅkrānti
Sun enters Gemini.

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 3.8 · Chapter 3 · कर्मयोग · Karma-Yoga
नियतं कुरु कर्म त्वं कर्म ज्यायो ह्यकर्मणः।

शरीरयात्रापि च ते न प्रसिद्ध्येदकर्मणः।।3.8।।
"3.8 Do thy duty as prescribed, for action for duty's sake is superior to inaction. Even the maintenance of the body would be impossible if man remained inactive." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 3.8's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Āṣāḍha (Āṣāḍha Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2065 Plava
Śaka Saṁvat: 1930 Sarvadhāri
Bengali Saṁvat: 1415
Malayalam Era: 1184
Nanakshahi: 539
Solar Month: Mithuna (Āni)
Ṛtu (Season): Grīṣma (Summer)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Caturthī (4/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Āśleṣā Pada 4
योग (Yoga)Vajra
करण (Karaṇa)Vaṇija
वार (Vāra)Ravivāra (Sunday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya80.38°MithunaPunarvasu P1
चन्द्र Candra120.19°SiṃhaMaghā P1
मङ्गल Maṅgala128.52°SiṃhaMaghā P3
बुध Budha59.05°VṛṣabhaMr̥gaśirā P2
गुरु Bṛhaspati264.52°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P4
शुक्र Śukra87.65°MithunaPunarvasu P3
शनि Śani130.79°SiṃhaMaghā P4

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)04:14 UTC-5
Sūryāsta (Sunset)19:23 UTC-5
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:49 UTC-5
Candrodaya (Moonrise)07:34 UTC-5
Candrāsta (Moonset)21:22 UTC-5
Dinamāna (Day Duration)15 Hours 09 Mins 40 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)8 Hours 50 Mins 20 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta02:12 – 03:13
Prātaḥ Sandhyā02:58 – 04:14
Abhijit Muhūrta11:18 – 12:19
Vijaya Muhūrta14:20 – 15:21
Godhūli Muhūrta19:11 – 19:35
Sāyāhna Sandhyā19:23 – 20:01
Amṛta Kāla19:08 – 20:53
Niśīta Muhūrta23:18 – 00:19

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla17:30 – 19:23
Yamaganda11:49 – 13:42
Gulika Kāla15:36 – 17:30
Varjyam04:52 – 05:16
Dur Muhūrta 07:46 – 08:16

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): West (Paścim)
Candra Vāsa: West
Rāhu Vāsa: North-East
Ānandādi Yoga: Vajra (Inauspicious)
Drik Ṛtu: Grīṣma (Summer) (Drik)
Vedic Ṛtu: Grīṣma (Summer)
Drik Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana
Vedic Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

Favorable Nakshatras (Tara Bala, 15/27):
Aśvinī · Bharaṇī · Kṛttikā · Rohiṇī · Mṛgaśirā · Maghā · Pūrva Phalgunī · Uttara Phalgunī · Hasta · Citrā · Mūla · Pūrva Āṣāḍhā · Uttara Āṣāḍhā · Śravaṇa · Dhaniṣṭhā
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12):
Vṛṣabha · Mithuna · Siṃha · Tulā · Makara · Kumbha

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Udveg04:14 – 06:07 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Chala06:07 – 08:01 (neutral)
Day-3 Labha08:01 – 09:55 (auspicious)
Day-4 Amṛta09:55 – 11:49 (auspicious)
Day-5 Kāla11:49 – 13:42 (inauspicious)
Day-6 Śubha13:42 – 15:36 (auspicious)
Day-7 Roga15:36 – 17:30 (inauspicious)
Day-8 Udveg17:30 – 19:23 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Śubha19:23 – 20:30 (auspicious)
Night-2 Roga20:30 – 21:36 (inauspicious)
Night-3 Udveg21:36 – 22:42 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Chala22:42 – 23:49 (neutral)
Night-5 Labha23:49 – 00:55 (auspicious)
Night-6 Amṛta00:55 – 02:01 (auspicious)
Night-7 Kāla02:01 – 03:07 (inauspicious)
Night-8 Śubha03:07 – 04:14 (auspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

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

🚶 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 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 Year5110 · Kali-5110
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1866188.27 · 5109.4 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2454653.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.9719° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)39.16° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 4/30)
🪷 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 (23.9719°) · declination 22.66° · EoT -4.36 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:2008-07-06 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)