पञ्चाङ्ग — Edison, NJ, USA · August 15, 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
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🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 16.20 · Chapter 16 · दैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोग · Daivāsura-Sampad-Vibhāga-Yoga
आसुरीं योनिमापन्ना मूढा जन्मनि जन्मनि।

मामप्राप्यैव कौन्तेय ततो यान्त्यधमां गतिम्।।16.20।।
"16.20 So reborn, they spend life after life, enveloped in delusion. And they never reach Me, O Prince, but degenerate into still lower forms of life." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 16.20's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Śrāvaṇa (Śrāvaṇa Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2070 Parābhava
Śaka Saṁvat: 1935 Vijaya
Bengali Saṁvat: 1420
Malayalam Era: 1189
Nanakshahi: 544
Solar Month: Karkaṭa (Āḍi)
Ṛtu (Season): Varṣā (Monsoon)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Navamī (9/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Anurādhā Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Indra
करण (Karaṇa)Bālava
वार (Vāra)Guruvāra (Thursday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya118.35°KarkaAśleṣā P4
चन्द्र Candra215.94°VṛścikaAnurādhā P1
मङ्गल Maṅgala87.37°MithunaPunarvasu P3
बुध Budha107.91°KarkaAśleṣā P1
गुरु Bṛhaspati76.28°MithunaĀrdrā P3
शुक्र Śukra153.86°KanyāUttara Phalgunī P3
शनि Śani191.66°TulāSvātī P2

☀️ Edison, NJ, USA — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · UTC-5)

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)05:08 UTC-5
Sūryāsta (Sunset)18:56 UTC-5
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)12:02 UTC-5
Candrodaya (Moonrise)13:42 UTC-5
Candrāsta (Moonset)23:23 UTC-5
Dinamāna (Day Duration)13 Hours 48 Mins 03 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)10 Hours 11 Mins 57 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta03:17 – 04:13
Prātaḥ Sandhyā03:59 – 05:08
Abhijit Muhūrta11:34 – 12:29
Vijaya Muhūrta14:20 – 15:15
Godhūli Muhūrta18:44 – 19:08
Sāyāhna Sandhyā18:56 – 19:30
Amṛta Kāla18:41 – 20:26
Niśīta Muhūrta23:34 – 00:29

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla13:45 – 15:29
Yamaganda05:08 – 06:51
Gulika Kāla08:35 – 10:18
Varjyam05:42 – 06:04
Dur Muhūrta 08:21 – 08:49

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): South (Dakṣiṇa)
Candra Vāsa: North-East
Rāhu Vāsa: North-West
Ānandādi Yoga: Saumya (Auspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Varṣā (Monsoon) (tropical)
Vedic Ṛtu: Grīṣma (Summer)
Tropical Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana
Vedic Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

Favorable Nakshatras (Tara Bala, 15/27):
Aśvinī · Bharaṇī · Kṛttikā · Rohiṇī · Aśleṣā · Maghā · Pūrva Phalgunī · Uttara Phalgunī · Hasta · Jyeṣṭhā · Mūla · Pūrva Āṣāḍhā · Uttara Āṣāḍhā · Śravaṇa · Revatī
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12):
Meṣa · Vṛṣabha · Siṃha · Kanyā · Vṛścika · Makara

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Śubha05:08 – 06:51 (auspicious)
Day-2 Roga06:51 – 08:35 (inauspicious)
Day-3 Udveg08:35 – 10:18 (inauspicious)
Day-4 Chala10:18 – 12:02 (neutral)
Day-5 Labha12:02 – 13:45 (auspicious)
Day-6 Amṛta13:45 – 15:29 (auspicious)
Day-7 Kāla15:29 – 17:12 (inauspicious)
Day-8 Śubha17:12 – 18:56 (auspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Amṛta18:56 – 20:12 (auspicious)
Night-2 Kāla20:12 – 21:29 (inauspicious)
Night-3 Śubha21:29 – 22:45 (auspicious)
Night-4 Roga22:45 – 00:02 (inauspicious)
Night-5 Udveg00:02 – 01:18 (inauspicious)
Night-6 Chala01:18 – 02:35 (neutral)
Night-7 Labha02:35 – 03:51 (auspicious)
Night-8 Amṛta03:51 – 05:08 (auspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 40.5187°
Longitude: -74.4121°
Timezone: UTC+-5

🚶 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 Navamī + Anurādhā alignment also occurred on:
-1626101-04-03Bhagavān Rāma's birth at Ayodhyā (same Śukla Navamī)

🌌 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)1868054.27 · 5114.6 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2456519.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)24.0433° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)100.43° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 9/30)
🪷 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 (24.0433°) · declination 14.05° · EoT -4.18 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:2013-08-15 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)