पञ्चाङ्ग — Chicago, USA · July 9, 1994 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: आषाढ गुप्त नवरात्रि आरम्भ — Āṣāḍha Gupta Navrātri Start
Second Gupta Navrātri.
🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 18.1 · Chapter 18 · मोक्षसंन्यासयोग · Mokṣa-Sannyāsa-Yoga
अर्जुन उवाच

संन्यासस्य महाबाहो तत्त्वमिच्छामि वेदितुम्।

त्यागस्य च हृषीकेश पृथक्केशिनिषूदन।।18.1।।
"18.1 "Arjuna asked: O mighty One! I desire to know how relinquishment is distinguished from renunciation." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 18.1's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Āṣāḍha (Āṣāḍha Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2051 Sarvajit
Śaka Saṁvat: 1916 Bhāva
Bengali Saṁvat: 1401
Malayalam Era: 1170
Nanakshahi: 525
Solar Month: Mithuna (Āni)
Ṛtu (Season): Grīṣma (Summer)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Pratipada (1/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Punarvasu Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Vyāghāta
करण (Karaṇa)Kiṃstughna
वार (Vāra)Śanivāra (Saturday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya82.85°MithunaPunarvasu P1
चन्द्र Candra84.50°MithunaPunarvasu P2
मङ्गल Maṅgala39.94°VṛṣabhaKṛttikā P4
बुध Budha65.71°MithunaMr̥gaśirā P4
गुरु Bṛhaspati191.14°TulāSvātī P2
शुक्र Śukra123.77°SiṃhaMaghā P2
शनि Śani318.37°KumbhaŚatabhiṣā P4

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)04:23 UTC-6
Sūryāsta (Sunset)19:27 UTC-6
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:55 UTC-6
Candrodaya (Moonrise)04:33 UTC-6
Candrāsta (Moonset)19:31 UTC-6
Dinamāna (Day Duration)15 Hours 03 Mins 59 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)8 Hours 56 Mins 01 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta02:23 – 03:23
Prātaḥ Sandhyā03:08 – 04:23
Abhijit Muhūrta11:25 – 12:25
Vijaya Muhūrta14:26 – 15:26
Godhūli Muhūrta19:15 – 19:39
Sāyāhna Sandhyā19:27 – 20:05
Amṛta Kāla19:12 – 20:57
Niśīta Muhūrta23:25 – 00:25

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla08:09 – 10:02
Yamaganda13:48 – 15:41
Gulika Kāla04:23 – 06:16
Varjyam05:01 – 05:25
Dur Muhūrta 07:54 – 08:24

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): East (Pūrva)
Candra Vāsa: South
Rāhu Vāsa: East
Ānandādi Yoga: Dhūmra (Inauspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Grīṣma (Summer) (tropical)
Vedic Ṛtu: Grīṣma (Summer)
Tropical Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana
Vedic Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa

⭐ 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 Kāla04:23 – 06:16 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Śubha06:16 – 08:09 (auspicious)
Day-3 Roga08:09 – 10:02 (inauspicious)
Day-4 Udveg10:02 – 11:55 (inauspicious)
Day-5 Chala11:55 – 13:48 (neutral)
Day-6 Labha13:48 – 15:41 (auspicious)
Day-7 Amṛta15:41 – 17:34 (auspicious)
Day-8 Kāla17:34 – 19:27 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Labha19:27 – 20:34 (auspicious)
Night-2 Amṛta20:34 – 21:41 (auspicious)
Night-3 Kāla21:41 – 22:48 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Śubha22:48 – 23:55 (auspicious)
Night-5 Roga23:55 – 01:02 (inauspicious)
Night-6 Udveg01:02 – 02:09 (inauspicious)
Night-7 Chala02:09 – 03:16 (neutral)
Night-8 Labha03:16 – 04:23 (auspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

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

🚶 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 Pratipada + 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 Year5096 · Kali-5096
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1861077.27 · 5095.5 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2449542.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.7764° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)1.47° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 1/30)
🪷 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 (23.7764°) · declination 22.40° · EoT -4.83 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:1994-07-09 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)