पञ्चाङ्ग — Chicago, USA · December 22, 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: 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 4.16 · Chapter 4 · ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोग · Jñāna-Karma-Sannyāsa-Yoga
किं कर्म किमकर्मेति कवयोऽप्यत्र मोहिताः।

तत्ते कर्म प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वा मोक्ष्यसेऽशुभात्।।4.16।।
"4.16 What is action and what is inaction? It is a question which has bewildered the wise. But I will declare unto thee the philosophy of action, and knowing it, thou shalt be free from evil." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 4.16's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

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

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī (27/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Viśākhā Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Sukarma
करण (Karaṇa)Kaulava
वार (Vāra)Śukravāra (Friday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya246.63°DhanuMūla P2
चन्द्र Candra205.25°TulāViśākhā P2
मङ्गल Maṅgala185.17°TulāCitrā P4
बुध Budha244.49°DhanuMūla P2
गुरु Bṛhaspati39.23°VṛṣabhaKṛttikā P4
शुक्र Śukra291.93°MakaraŚravaṇa P4
शनि Śani31.13°VṛṣabhaKṛttikā P2

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)07:16 UTC-6
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:23 UTC-6
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:50 UTC-6
Candrodaya (Moonrise)04:06 UTC-6
Candrāsta (Moonset)14:02 UTC-6
Dinamāna (Day Duration)9 Hours 07 Mins 35 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)14 Hours 52 Mins 25 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta06:03 – 06:39
Prātaḥ Sandhyā06:30 – 07:16
Abhijit Muhūrta11:31 – 12:08
Vijaya Muhūrta13:21 – 13:57
Godhūli Muhūrta16:11 – 16:35
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:23 – 16:46
Amṛta Kāla16:08 – 17:53
Niśīta Muhūrta23:31 – 00:08

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla10:41 – 11:50
Yamaganda14:07 – 15:15
Gulika Kāla08:24 – 09:33
Varjyam07:39 – 07:53
Dur Muhūrta 09:24 – 09:42

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): West (Paścim)
Candra Vāsa: North
Rāhu Vāsa: South-East
Ānandādi Yoga: Śrīvatsa (Auspicious)
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 · Puṣya · Aśleṣā · Maghā · Pūrva Phalgunī · Uttara Phalgunī · Anurādhā · Jyeṣṭhā · Mūla · Pūrva Āṣāḍhā · Uttara Āṣāḍhā · Uttara Bhādrapadā · Revatī
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12):
Meṣa · Karka · Siṃha · Tulā · Dhanu · Mīna

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Chala07:16 – 08:24 (neutral)
Day-2 Labha08:24 – 09:33 (auspicious)
Day-3 Amṛta09:33 – 10:41 (auspicious)
Day-4 Kāla10:41 – 11:50 (inauspicious)
Day-5 Śubha11:50 – 12:58 (auspicious)
Day-6 Roga12:58 – 14:07 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Udveg14:07 – 15:15 (inauspicious)
Day-8 Chala15:15 – 16:23 (neutral)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Roga16:23 – 18:15 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Udveg18:15 – 20:07 (inauspicious)
Night-3 Chala20:07 – 21:58 (neutral)
Night-4 Labha21:58 – 23:50 (auspicious)
Night-5 Amṛta23:50 – 01:41 (auspicious)
Night-6 Kāla01:41 – 03:33 (inauspicious)
Night-7 Śubha03:33 – 05:24 (auspicious)
Night-8 Roga05:24 – 07:16 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

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

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

5 steps · graha walk
Śukravāra (Friday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Beauty + creativity in dharma + BG 10.36.

🌌 Cosmic-Historical Resonance

Today's Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī + Viśākhā alignment also occurred on:
-0562-04-11Bhagavān Buddha's birth at Lumbinī (same Viśākhā)

🌌 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)1863435.27 · 5101.9 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2451900.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.8666° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)317.30° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 27/30)
🪷 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 (23.8666°) · declination -23.44° · EoT 0.91 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:2000-12-22 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)