पञ्चाङ्ग — Chicago, USA · August 17, 1982 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: सिंह सङ्क्रान्ति — Siṁha Saṅkrānti
Sun enters Leo.

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 12.17 · Chapter 12 · भक्तियोग · Bhakti-Yoga
यो न हृष्यति न द्वेष्टि न शोचति न काङ्क्षति।शुभाशुभपरित्यागी भक्ितमान्यः स मे प्रियः।।12.17।।
"12.17 He who is beyond joy and hate, who neither laments nor desires, to whom good and evil fortunes are the same, such a one is My beloved." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 12.17's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Bhādrapada (Bhādrapada Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2039 Yuva
Śaka Saṁvat: 1904 Dundubhi
Bengali Saṁvat: 1389
Malayalam Era: 1158
Nanakshahi: 513
Solar Month: Siṃha (Āvaṇi)
Ṛtu (Season): Varṣā (Monsoon)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Trayodaśī (28/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Punarvasu Pada 4
योग (Yoga)Siddhi
करण (Karaṇa)Vaṇija
वार (Vāra)Maṅgalavāra (Tuesday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya120.22°SiṃhaMaghā P1
चन्द्र Candra91.68°KarkaPunarvasu P4
मङ्गल Maṅgala194.62°TulāSvātī P3
बुध Budha140.75°SiṃhaPūrva Phalgunī P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati190.98°TulāSvātī P2
शुक्र Śukra99.80°KarkaPuṣya P2
शनि Śani174.33°KanyāCitrā P1

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)05:00 UTC-6
Sūryāsta (Sunset)18:49 UTC-6
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:54 UTC-6
Candrodaya (Moonrise)02:36 UTC-6
Candrāsta (Moonset)17:25 UTC-6
Dinamāna (Day Duration)13 Hours 49 Mins 30 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)10 Hours 10 Mins 30 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta03:09 – 04:04
Prātaḥ Sandhyā03:50 – 05:00
Abhijit Muhūrta11:27 – 12:22
Vijaya Muhūrta14:13 – 15:08
Godhūli Muhūrta18:37 – 19:01
Sāyāhna Sandhyā18:49 – 19:24
Amṛta Kāla18:34 – 20:19
Niśīta Muhūrta23:27 – 00:22

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla15:22 – 17:05
Yamaganda08:27 – 10:11
Gulika Kāla11:54 – 13:38
Varjyam05:34 – 05:56
Dur Muhūrta 08:13 – 08:41

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): North (Uttara)
Candra Vāsa: South-West
Rāhu Vāsa: North
Ānandādi Yoga: Lumba (Auspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Varṣā (Monsoon)
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 Roga05:00 – 06:43 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Udveg06:43 – 08:27 (inauspicious)
Day-3 Chala08:27 – 10:11 (neutral)
Day-4 Labha10:11 – 11:54 (auspicious)
Day-5 Amṛta11:54 – 13:38 (auspicious)
Day-6 Kāla13:38 – 15:22 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Śubha15:22 – 17:05 (auspicious)
Day-8 Roga17:05 – 18:49 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Kāla18:49 – 20:05 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Śubha20:05 – 21:22 (auspicious)
Night-3 Roga21:22 – 22:38 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Udveg22:38 – 23:54 (inauspicious)
Night-5 Chala23:54 – 01:11 (neutral)
Night-6 Labha01:11 – 02:27 (auspicious)
Night-7 Amṛta02:27 – 03:43 (auspicious)
Night-8 Kāla03:43 – 05:00 (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 Kṛṣṇa Trayodaśī + Punarvasu alignment also occurred on:
-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 Year5084 · Kali-5084
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1856733.27 · 5083.6 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2445198.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.6103° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)333.60° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 28/30)
🪷 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 (23.6103°) · declination 13.58° · EoT -3.75 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:1982-08-17 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)