पञ्चाङ्ग — Chicago, USA · April 18, 2013 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 any of 147,073 cities worldwide · ?format=json
🪷 आज: मेष सङ्क्रान्ति — Meṣa Saṅkrānti (Vaiśākhī / Vishu / Pohelā Boishākh / Bihu)
Sun enters Aries; solar new year. Regional: Vaiśākhī (Punjab) · Vishu (Kerala) · Pohelā Boishākh (Bengal) · Bihu (Assam) · Tamil Puthāṇḍu.

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 12.3 · Chapter 12 · भक्तियोग · Bhakti-Yoga
ये त्वक्षरमनिर्देश्यमव्यक्तं पर्युपासते।सर्वत्रगमचिन्त्यं च कूटस्थमचलं ध्रुवम्।।12.3।।
"12.3 Those who worship Me as the Indestructible, the Undefinable, the Omnipresent, the Unthinkable, the Primeval, the Immutable and the Eternal;" — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 12.3's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Vaiśākha (Vaiśākha Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2070 Parābhava
Śaka Saṁvat: 1935 Vijaya
Bengali Saṁvat: 1420
Malayalam Era: 1189
Nanakshahi: 544
Solar Month: Mēsha (Cittirai / Vaiśākhī)
Ṛtu (Season): Vasanta (Spring)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Aṣṭamī (8/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Punarvasu Pada 4
योग (Yoga)Dhṛti
करण (Karaṇa)Viṣṭi
वार (Vāra)Guruvāra (Thursday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya4.14°MeṣaAśvinī P2
चन्द्र Candra88.74°MithunaPunarvasu P3
मङ्गल Maṅgala3.95°MeṣaAśvinī P2
बुध Budha341.65°MīnaUttara Bhādrapadā P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati50.41°VṛṣabhaRohiṇī P4
शुक्र Śukra9.19°MeṣaAśvinī P3
शनि Śani194.71°TulāSvātī P3

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)05:06 UTC-6
Sūryāsta (Sunset)18:34 UTC-6
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:50 UTC-6
Candrodaya (Moonrise)10:02 UTC-6
Candrāsta (Moonset)00:55 UTC-6
Dinamāna (Day Duration)13 Hours 28 Mins 14 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)10 Hours 31 Mins 46 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta03:18 – 04:12
Prātaḥ Sandhyā03:59 – 05:06
Abhijit Muhūrta11:23 – 12:17
Vijaya Muhūrta14:05 – 14:59
Godhūli Muhūrta18:22 – 18:46
Sāyāhna Sandhyā18:34 – 19:08
Amṛta Kāla18:19 – 20:04
Niśīta Muhūrta23:23 – 00:17

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla13:31 – 15:12
Yamaganda05:06 – 06:47
Gulika Kāla08:28 – 10:09
Varjyam05:40 – 06:01
Dur Muhūrta 08:14 – 08:41

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): South (Dakṣiṇa)
Candra Vāsa: South
Rāhu Vāsa: North-West
Ānandādi Yoga: Gada (Inauspicious)
Drik Ṛtu: Vasanta (Spring)
Vedic Ṛtu: Vasanta (Spring)
Drik Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
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 Śubha05:06 – 06:47 (auspicious)
Day-2 Roga06:47 – 08:28 (inauspicious)
Day-3 Udveg08:28 – 10:09 (inauspicious)
Day-4 Chala10:09 – 11:50 (neutral)
Day-5 Labha11:50 – 13:31 (auspicious)
Day-6 Amṛta13:31 – 15:12 (auspicious)
Day-7 Kāla15:12 – 16:53 (inauspicious)
Day-8 Śubha16:53 – 18:34 (auspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Amṛta18:34 – 19:53 (auspicious)
Night-2 Kāla19:53 – 21:12 (inauspicious)
Night-3 Śubha21:12 – 22:31 (auspicious)
Night-4 Roga22:31 – 23:50 (inauspicious)
Night-5 Udveg23:50 – 01:09 (inauspicious)
Night-6 Chala01:09 – 02:28 (neutral)
Night-7 Labha02:28 – 03:47 (auspicious)
Night-8 Amṛta03:47 – 05:06 (auspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

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

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

8 steps · graha walk
Guruvāra (Thursday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Wisdom transmission + BG 4.34.

🌌 Cosmic-Historical Resonance

Today's Śukla Aṣṭamī + Punarvasu alignment also occurred on:
-3137-12-25Bhīṣma's Mahaprasthan (same Śukla Aṣṭamī)
-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 Year5115 · Kali-5115
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1867935.27 · 5114.2 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2456400.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)24.0387° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)87.19° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 8/30)
🪷 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 (24.0387°) · declination 10.82° · EoT 0.51 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:2013-04-18 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)