पञ्चाङ्ग — Chicago, USA · November 18, 2000 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: वृश्चिक सङ्क्रान्ति — Vṛścika Saṅkrānti
Sun enters Scorpio.
🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 3.25 · Chapter 3 · कर्मयोग · Karma-Yoga
सक्ताः कर्मण्यविद्वांसो यथा कुर्वन्ति भारत।

कुर्याद्विद्वांस्तथासक्तश्िचकीर्षुर्लोकसंग्रहम्।।3.25।।
"3.25 As the ignorant act, because of their fondness for action, so should the wise act without such attachment, fixing their eyes, O Arjuna, only on the welfare of the world." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 3.25's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Mārgaśīrṣa (Mārgaśīrṣa Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2057 Vijaya
Śaka Saṁvat: 1922 Vikrama
Bengali Saṁvat: 1407
Malayalam Era: 1176
Nanakshahi: 531
Solar Month: Vṛścika (Kārttikai)
Ṛtu (Season): Hemanta (Pre-winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Saptamī (22/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Āśleṣā Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Brahma
करण (Karaṇa)Bava
वार (Vāra)Śanivāra (Saturday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya212.14°VṛścikaViśākhā P4
चन्द्र Candra114.35°KarkaAśleṣā P3
मङ्गल Maṅgala164.67°KanyāHasta P2
बुध Budha193.15°TulāSvātī P2
गुरु Bṛhaspati43.61°VṛṣabhaRohiṇī P2
शुक्र Śukra252.07°DhanuMūla P4
शनि Śani33.65°VṛṣabhaKṛttikā P3

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)06:44 UTC-6
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:28 UTC-6
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:36 UTC-6
Candrodaya (Moonrise)22:05 UTC-6
Candrāsta (Moonset)12:06 UTC-6
Dinamāna (Day Duration)9 Hours 43 Mins 56 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)14 Hours 16 Mins 04 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta05:26 – 06:05
Prātaḥ Sandhyā05:56 – 06:44
Abhijit Muhūrta11:17 – 11:56
Vijaya Muhūrta13:14 – 13:53
Godhūli Muhūrta16:16 – 16:40
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:28 – 16:53
Amṛta Kāla16:13 – 17:58
Niśīta Muhūrta23:17 – 23:56

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla09:10 – 10:23
Yamaganda12:49 – 14:02
Gulika Kāla06:44 – 07:57
Varjyam07:09 – 07:24
Dur Muhūrta 09:01 – 09:20

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): East (Pūrva)
Candra Vāsa: South-West
Rāhu Vāsa: East
Ānandādi Yoga: Saumya (Auspicious)
Drik Ṛtu: Śarad (Autumn)
Vedic Ṛtu: Śarad (Autumn)
Drik Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana
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 · Karka · Kanyā · Dhanu · Makara

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Kāla06:44 – 07:57 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Śubha07:57 – 09:10 (auspicious)
Day-3 Roga09:10 – 10:23 (inauspicious)
Day-4 Udveg10:23 – 11:36 (inauspicious)
Day-5 Chala11:36 – 12:49 (neutral)
Day-6 Labha12:49 – 14:02 (auspicious)
Day-7 Amṛta14:02 – 15:15 (auspicious)
Day-8 Kāla15:15 – 16:28 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Labha16:28 – 18:15 (auspicious)
Night-2 Amṛta18:15 – 20:02 (auspicious)
Night-3 Kāla20:02 – 21:49 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Śubha21:49 – 23:36 (auspicious)
Night-5 Roga23:36 – 01:23 (inauspicious)
Night-6 Udveg01:23 – 03:10 (inauspicious)
Night-7 Chala03:10 – 04:57 (neutral)
Night-8 Labha04:57 – 06:44 (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 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 Year5102 · Kali-5102
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1863401.27 · 5101.8 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2451866.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.8653° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)260.24° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 22/30)
🪷 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 (23.8653°) · declination -19.25° · EoT 14.21 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:2000-11-18 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)