पञ्चाङ्ग — Chicago, USA · December 28, 1997 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: लोहड़ी — Lohri
Punjab harvest festival; eve of Makara Saṅkrānti. (Approximated as 13/14 January annually; correct via Sun in Dhanu/Makara cusp.)

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 13.1 · Chapter 13 · क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञविभागयोग · Kṣetra-Kṣetrajña-Vibhāga-Yoga
अर्जुन उवाच

प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव क्षेत्रं क्षेत्रज्ञमेव च।

एतद्वेदितुमिच्छामि ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं च केशव।।13.1।।
"13.1 "Arjuna asked: My Lord! Who is God and what is Nature; what is Matter and what is the Self; what is that they call Wisdom, and what is it that is worth knowing? I wish to have this explained." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 13.1's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Pauṣa (Pauṣa Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2054 Vikṛti
Śaka Saṁvat: 1919 Īśvara
Bengali Saṁvat: 1404
Malayalam Era: 1173
Nanakshahi: 528
Solar Month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)
Ṛtu (Season): Hemanta (Pre-winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Caturdaśī (29/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Jyeṣṭhā Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Gaṇḍa
करण (Karaṇa)Viṣṭi
वार (Vāra)Ravivāra (Sunday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya252.51°DhanuMūla P4
चन्द्र Candra231.90°VṛścikaJyeṣṭhā P2
मङ्गल Maṅgala283.85°MakaraŚravaṇa P2
बुध Budha233.16°VṛścikaJyeṣṭhā P2
गुरु Bṛhaspati297.60°MakaraDhaniṣṭhā P2
शुक्र Śukra280.10°MakaraŚravaṇa P1
शनि Śani349.80°MīnaRevatī P1

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)07:18 UTC-6
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:27 UTC-6
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:52 UTC-6
Candrodaya (Moonrise)05:54 UTC-6
Candrāsta (Moonset)15:06 UTC-6
Dinamāna (Day Duration)9 Hours 08 Mins 57 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)14 Hours 51 Mins 03 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta06:05 – 06:41
Prātaḥ Sandhyā06:32 – 07:18
Abhijit Muhūrta11:34 – 12:11
Vijaya Muhūrta13:24 – 14:00
Godhūli Muhūrta16:15 – 16:39
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:27 – 16:50
Amṛta Kāla16:12 – 17:57
Niśīta Muhūrta23:34 – 00:11

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla15:18 – 16:27
Yamaganda11:52 – 13:01
Gulika Kāla14:10 – 15:18
Varjyam07:41 – 07:55
Dur Muhūrta 09:26 – 09:44

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): West (Paścim)
Candra Vāsa: North-East
Rāhu Vāsa: North-East
Ānandādi Yoga: Kāṇa (Inauspicious)
Drik Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter) (Drik)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Drik Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
Vedic Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana

⭐ 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):
Meṣa · Vṛṣabha · Siṃha · Kanyā · Vṛścika · Makara

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Udveg07:18 – 08:27 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Chala08:27 – 09:35 (neutral)
Day-3 Labha09:35 – 10:44 (auspicious)
Day-4 Amṛta10:44 – 11:52 (auspicious)
Day-5 Kāla11:52 – 13:01 (inauspicious)
Day-6 Śubha13:01 – 14:10 (auspicious)
Day-7 Roga14:10 – 15:18 (inauspicious)
Day-8 Udveg15:18 – 16:27 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Śubha16:27 – 18:18 (auspicious)
Night-2 Roga18:18 – 20:10 (inauspicious)
Night-3 Udveg20:10 – 22:01 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Chala22:01 – 23:52 (neutral)
Night-5 Labha23:52 – 01:44 (auspicious)
Night-6 Amṛta01:44 – 03:35 (auspicious)
Night-7 Kāla03:35 – 05:27 (inauspicious)
Night-8 Śubha05:27 – 07:18 (auspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

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

🚶 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-Historical Resonance

Today's Kṛṣṇa Caturdaśī + Jyeṣṭhā alignment also occurred on:
-3137-10-20Karṇa-Vadha (Mahābhārata Day 17) (same Jyeṣṭhā)

🌌 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 Year5099 · Kali-5099
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1862345.27 · 5098.9 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2450810.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.8249° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)338.38° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 29/30)
🪷 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 (23.8249°) · declination -23.28° · EoT -1.89 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:1997-12-28 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)