पञ्चाङ्ग — Chicago, USA · January 20, 1981 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: पौष पूर्णिमा — Pauṣa Pūrṇimā (Śākambharī Devī Jayantī)
Manifestation of Devī Śākambharī (vegetation-mother).
🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 17.18 · Chapter 17 · श्रद्धात्रयविभागयोग · Śraddhā-Traya-Vibhāga-Yoga
सत्कारमानपूजार्थं तपो दम्भेन चैव यत्।क्रियते तदिह प्रोक्तं राजसं चलमध्रुवम्।।17.18।।
"17.18 Austerity coupled with hypocrisy or performed for the sake of self-glorification, popularity or vanity, comes from Passion, and its result is always doubtful and temporary." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 17.18's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Pauṣa (Pauṣa Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2038 Bhāva
Śaka Saṁvat: 1903 Durmati
Bengali Saṁvat: 1388
Malayalam Era: 1157
Nanakshahi: 512
Solar Month: Makara (Tai)
Ṛtu (Season): Hemanta (Pre-winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Pūrṇimā (15/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Puṣya Pada 1
योग (Yoga)Viṣkambha
करण (Karaṇa)Bava
वार (Vāra)Maṅgalavāra (Tuesday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya276.31°MakaraUttara Āṣāḍhā P3
चन्द्र Candra92.80°KarkaPunarvasu P4
मङ्गल Maṅgala292.56°MakaraŚravaṇa P4
बुध Budha289.14°MakaraŚravaṇa P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati166.81°KanyāHasta P3
शुक्र Śukra257.64°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P2
शनि Śani165.96°KanyāHasta P2

☀️ Chicago, USA — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · UTC-6)

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)07:13 UTC-6
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:50 UTC-6
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)12:01 UTC-6
Candrodaya (Moonrise)16:24 UTC-6
Candrāsta (Moonset)07:11 UTC-6
Dinamāna (Day Duration)9 Hours 36 Mins 14 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)14 Hours 23 Mins 46 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta05:57 – 06:35
Prātaḥ Sandhyā06:25 – 07:13
Abhijit Muhūrta11:42 – 12:21
Vijaya Muhūrta13:38 – 14:16
Godhūli Muhūrta16:38 – 17:02
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:50 – 17:14
Amṛta Kāla16:35 – 18:20
Niśīta Muhūrta23:42 – 00:21

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla14:26 – 15:38
Yamaganda09:37 – 10:49
Gulika Kāla12:01 – 13:14
Varjyam07:37 – 07:53
Dur Muhūrta 09:28 – 09:47

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): North (Uttara)
Candra Vāsa: South-West
Rāhu Vāsa: North
Ānandādi Yoga: Utpāta (Inauspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Tropical Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
Vedic Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

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

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Roga07:13 – 08:25 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Udveg08:25 – 09:37 (inauspicious)
Day-3 Chala09:37 – 10:49 (neutral)
Day-4 Labha10:49 – 12:01 (auspicious)
Day-5 Amṛta12:01 – 13:14 (auspicious)
Day-6 Kāla13:14 – 14:26 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Śubha14:26 – 15:38 (auspicious)
Day-8 Roga15:38 – 16:50 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Kāla16:50 – 18:38 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Śubha18:38 – 20:26 (auspicious)
Night-3 Roga20:26 – 22:14 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Udveg22:14 – 00:01 (inauspicious)
Night-5 Chala00:01 – 01:49 (neutral)
Night-6 Labha01:49 – 03:37 (auspicious)
Night-7 Amṛta03:37 – 05:25 (auspicious)
Night-8 Kāla05:25 – 07:13 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 41.8781°
Longitude: -87.6298°
Timezone: UTC+-6

🚶 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 Śukla Pūrṇimā + Puṣya alignment also occurred on:
-3137-10-04Mahābhārata Day 1 (Bhagavad Gītā delivered) (same Śukla Pūrṇimā)
-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 Year5082 · Kali-5082
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1856159.27 · 5082.0 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2444624.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.5883° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)178.22° · 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 (23.5883°) · declination -20.17° · EoT -10.96 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:1981-01-20 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)