पञ्चाङ्ग — Chicago, USA · January 14, 1987 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: 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 18.72 · Chapter 18 · मोक्षसंन्यासयोग · Mokṣa-Sannyāsa-Yoga
कच्चिदेतच्छ्रुतं पार्थ त्वयैकाग्रेण चेतसा।कच्चिदज्ञानसंमोहः प्रनष्टस्ते धनञ्जय।।18.72।।
"18.72 O Arjuna! Hast thou listened attentively to My words? Has thy ignorance and thy delusion gone?" — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 18.72's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Pauṣa (Pauṣa Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2044 Vikrama
Śaka Saṁvat: 1909 Prabhava
Bengali Saṁvat: 1394
Malayalam Era: 1163
Nanakshahi: 518
Solar Month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)
Ṛtu (Season): Hemanta (Pre-winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Pūrṇimā (15/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Ārdrā Pada 4
योग (Yoga)Vaidhṛti
करण (Karaṇa)Viṣṭi
वार (Vāra)Budhavāra (Wednesday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya269.65°DhanuUttara Āṣāḍhā P1
चन्द्र Candra78.03°MithunaĀrdrā P4
मङ्गल Maṅgala340.34°MīnaUttara Bhādrapadā P3
बुध Budha270.72°MakaraUttara Āṣāḍhā P2
गुरु Bṛhaspati326.83°KumbhaPūrva Bhādrapadā P3
शुक्र Śukra222.92°VṛścikaAnurādhā P3
शनि Śani232.75°VṛścikaJyeṣṭhā P2

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)07:17 UTC-6
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:42 UTC-6
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)12:00 UTC-6
Candrodaya (Moonrise)15:40 UTC-6
Candrāsta (Moonset)06:46 UTC-6
Dinamāna (Day Duration)9 Hours 25 Mins 29 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)14 Hours 34 Mins 31 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta06:01 – 06:39
Prātaḥ Sandhyā06:30 – 07:17
Abhijit Muhūrta11:41 – 12:18
Vijaya Muhūrta13:34 – 14:11
Godhūli Muhūrta16:30 – 16:54
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:42 – 17:06
Amṛta Kāla16:27 – 18:12
Niśīta Muhūrta23:41 – 00:18

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla12:00 – 13:10
Yamaganda08:27 – 09:38
Gulika Kāla10:49 – 12:00
Varjyam07:40 – 07:55
Dur Muhūrta 09:29 – 09:48

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): North (Uttara)
Candra Vāsa: South
Rāhu Vāsa: South-West
Ānandādi Yoga: Kāṇa (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 · Punarvasu · Puṣya · Aśleṣā · Maghā · Pūrva Phalgunī · Viśākhā · Anurādhā · Jyeṣṭhā · Mūla · Pūrva Āṣāḍhā · Pūrva Bhādrapadā · Uttara Bhādrapadā · Revatī
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12):
Meṣa · Mithuna · Siṃha · Vṛścika · Dhanu · Mīna

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Labha07:17 – 08:27 (auspicious)
Day-2 Amṛta08:27 – 09:38 (auspicious)
Day-3 Kāla09:38 – 10:49 (inauspicious)
Day-4 Śubha10:49 – 12:00 (auspicious)
Day-5 Roga12:00 – 13:10 (inauspicious)
Day-6 Udveg13:10 – 14:21 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Chala14:21 – 15:32 (neutral)
Day-8 Labha15:32 – 16:42 (auspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Udveg16:42 – 18:32 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Chala18:32 – 20:21 (neutral)
Night-3 Labha20:21 – 22:10 (auspicious)
Night-4 Amṛta22:10 – 00:00 (auspicious)
Night-5 Kāla00:00 – 01:49 (inauspicious)
Night-6 Śubha01:49 – 03:38 (auspicious)
Night-7 Roga03:38 – 05:27 (inauspicious)
Night-8 Udveg05:27 – 07:17 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

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

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

6 steps · graha walk
Budhavāra (Wednesday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Discrimination + BG 2.41 (vyavasāyātmikā buddhi).

🌌 Cosmic-Historical Resonance

Today's Śukla Pūrṇimā + Ārdrā 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 Year5088 · Kali-5088
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1858344.27 · 5088.0 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2446809.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.6719° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)168.23° · 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 (23.6719°) · declination -21.42° · 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:1987-01-14 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)