पञ्चाङ्ग — Edison, NJ, USA · January 3, 2026 CE

पञ्चाङ्ग सार — Core Five-Limb Snapshot

Tithi
Kṛṣṇa Pratipada
16/30 · Kṛṣṇa pakṣa
Nakshatra
Ārdrā
Pada 4 · 6/27
Yoga
Indra
26/27
Karaṇa
Bālava
half-tithi 30/60
Vāra
Śanivāra (Saturday)
weekday limb
Calendar context: Māgha (Māgha Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa) · Solar month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)

The day's tithi, nakṣatra, yoga and karaṇa are those at sunrise in Edison, NJ, USA, by the Sūrya Siddhānta (II.59-63).

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Māgha (Māgha Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2082 Kālayukta
Śaka Saṁvat: 1947 Viśvāvasu
Bengali Saṁvat: 1432
Malayalam Era: 1201
Nanakshahi: 557
Solar Month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)
Ṛtu (Season): Śiśira (Winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Pratipada (16/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Ārdrā Pada 4
योग (Yoga)Indra
करण (Karaṇa)Bālava
वार (Vāra)Śanivāra (Saturday)
🕉️ 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 supported city records worldwide · ?format=json
🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 5.4 · Chapter 5 · कर्मसंन्यासयोग · Karma-Sannyāsa-Yoga
सांख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः।

एकमप्यास्थितः सम्यगुभयोर्विन्दते फलम्।।5.4।।
"5.4 Only the unenlightened speak of wisdom and right action as separate, not the wise. If any man knows one, he enjoys the fruit of both." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 5.4's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal, by the Sūrya Siddhānta)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya258.61°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P2
चन्द्र Candra79.53°MithunaĀrdrā P4
मङ्गल Maṅgala258.74°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P2
बुध Budha248.56°DhanuMūla P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati92.14°KarkaPunarvasu P4
शुक्र Śukra261.38°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P3
शनि Śani324.29°KumbhaPūrva Bhādrapadā P2

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)07:25 UTC-5
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:31 UTC-5
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:58 UTC-5
Candrodaya (Moonrise)16:53 UTC-5
Candrāsta (Moonset)07:43 UTC-5
Dinamāna (Day Duration)9 Hours 06 Mins 23 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)14 Hours 53 Mins 37 Secs

काल-विभाग — Windows of the Day, with their Sources

Each window with the rule that makes it and its source; where a source characterises a window, its words are given. No window is labelled here.

WindowTimeRule · Source
Brahma Muhūrta05:26 – 06:25the 14th fifteenth of the night ending at this sunrise · Manusmṛti 4.92; Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Sūtra 2.1, with Aruṇadatta and Hemādri
  • Manusmṛti 4.92: "brāhme muhūrte budhyeta" (one should wake in the brāhma muhūrta and reflect on dharma and the Veda)
  • Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Sūtra 2.1: "brāhme muhūrta uttiṣṭhet svastho rakṣārtham āyuṣaḥ" (the healthy should rise then, to protect life)
  • Aruṇadatta: "rātreś caturdaśo muhūrto brāhmo muhūrtaḥ"; Hemādri: "rātreś copāntyo muhūrto brāhmaḥ" (wording through a journal article)
Abhijit Muhūrta11:40 – 12:16the 8th fifteenth of the day, around midday · Ṭikaṇikayātrā 3.7-8; Muhūrta-gaṇapati 83-86; Nārada-saṃhitā 9.4-5
  • Ṭikaṇikayātrā 3.8: "tena yānam apahāya dakṣiṇāṃ sarvadikṣv abhijit praśasyate" (under Abhijit, travel in every direction but the south is praised)
  • Muhūrta-gaṇapati 83-84: in Abhijit, even where faults exist, one may do all auspicious work except travel to the south
  • Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa 6.4.3 calls the midday muhūrta Vijaya ("yukto muhūrto vijayaḥ prāpto madhyaṃ divākaraḥ")
Godhūli16:25 – 16:3715 pala before and after the half-set Sun (the text's sunset is the Sun's centre on the horizon) · Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Vivāha 38 (citing the Jyotirnibandha); Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Vivāha 6.100-101
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi 6.100: "godhūliḥ sā munibhir uditā sarvakāryeṣu praśastā" (the sages declared godhūli praised for all works)
  • Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Vivāha 38: a lagna for marriage when no other good lagna is available
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54: for travel, godhūli except toward the west
Niśītha23:28 – 00:28the 8th fifteenth of the night: the middle of the night (not clock midnight) · Dharmasindhu; Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54
  • Dharmasindhu: niśītha is the middle of the night, finely the 8th muhūrta; the instant at which a tithi is taken for night observances
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 11.54: for travel, niśītha except toward the north
Gulika Kālam07:25 – 08:33Saturn's eighth of the day: part 1 of 8, counted from Saturn · Bṛhat-Parāśara-Horāśāstra ch. 3 (upagrahas)
  • Kālaprakāśikā ch. 34 (tr. N. P. Subramania Iyer, 1917): for harvest, trade, medical treatment and the study of the Vedas "Gulika has no evil force"; ch. 33 note: "Gulika is not considered inauspicious"
  • Phaladīpikā 25.20 (as a natal upagraha): Gulika acts like Saturn
Yamaghaṇṭaka (Yamagaṇḍa) Kālam13:06 – 14:15Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 6 of 8, counted from Saturn · Bṛhat-Parāśara-Horāśāstra ch. 3 (upagrahas)
  • Kālaprakāśikā ch. 33: listed with Ardhapraharam and Kālan as periods to be set aside
  • Phaladīpikā 25.19-20 (as a natal upagraha): Yamakaṇṭaka acts like Jupiter, the strongest of the upagrahas at giving good
  • Muhūrtacintāmaṇi 1.37-39 counts a Yamaghaṇṭa among the faulty moments (duṣṭakṣaṇa), in sixteenths of the day: the second half of this eighth
Rāhu Kālam09:41 – 10:50part 3 of the day's 8 (Sun 8, Mon 2, Tue 7, Wed 5, Thu 6, Fri 4, Sat 3) · South Indian almanac table (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala); no verse found in BPHS, Bṛhatsaṃhitā, Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Muhūrta-mārtaṇḍa, Nārada-saṃhitā, Phaladīpikā, Dharmasindhu, Nirṇayasindhu or Praśna-mārga · regional convention
  • Uttara-kālāmṛta 2.29 (post-16th century; read in P. S. Sastri's English): not to bathe in the sea during it. The editor: "Standard texts have no mention of it."

Not computed: Vijaya muhūrta as "the second half of the 7th muhūrta" (no source; Rāmāyaṇa 6.4.3 calls the midday muhūrta Vijaya (see Abhijit)); Amṛta kāla by weekday (no source for a weekday table; the amṛta-ghaṭikā of the sources is by nakṣatra and is not yet read from a primary text); Durmuhūrta (Muhūrtacintāmaṇi 1.38-39) (the weekday table is partly unreadable in the scans (Tuesday and Thursday)).

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla: East (Nārada-saṃhitā 33.5 (and Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 10): "na vrajet", one should not set out that way on that weekday)
Candra Vāsa: West (Nārada-saṃhitā 33.8: the rāśis from Meṣa in turn to the four quarters from the east; the Moon dwells in her rāśi's quarter)
Ānandādi Yoga: 10. Mudgara (Ārdrā, counted from Śatabhiṣaj); left out in a necessary undertaking: 5 ghaṭī (Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Śubhāśubha 23-26; Abhijit by Vivāha 55)
Not shown: Rāhu-vāsa by weekday: no classical verse found (Muhūrtacintāmaṇi has only the nakṣatra-based Pathi-Rāhu-cakra, Yātrā 18); an almanac convention, not shown.
Tropical Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter) (tropical)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Tropical Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
Vedic Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tārā & Candra-bala

Tārā: Counted from the janma star to the day's star, in three rounds of nine (Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Gocara 11-12); "tārā nāmasadṛkphalāḥ": each tārā gives fruit like its name (v.12). The day's star: Ārdrā.

1. JanmaĀrdrā · Svātī · Śatabhiṣaj
2. SampatMṛgaśirā · Citrā · Dhaniṣṭhā
3. VipatRohiṇī · Hasta · Śravaṇa
4. KṣemaKṛttikā · Uttara Phalgunī · Uttara Āṣāḍhā
5. PratyariBharaṇī · Pūrva Phalgunī · Pūrva Āṣāḍhā
6. SādhakaAśvinī · Maghā · Mūla
7. VadhaAśleṣā · Jyeṣṭhā · Revatī
8. MaitraPuṣya · Anurādhā · Uttara Bhādrapadā
9. AtimaitraPunarvasu · Viśākhā · Pūrva Bhādrapadā

Candra-bala: The Moon's house counted from the janma rāśi; the places of v.1 with their vedha houses, and in the bright half those of v.4 (Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Gocara 1-4). The Moon is in Mithuna. Not computed: the vedha of the v.4 places (the ṭīkā gives 6, 8, 4; not checked against a second edition).

Janma rāśiMoon's house · place · vedha
Meṣa3 · v.1 · vedha house 9: Sun, Mars, Venus
Vṛṣabha2 · not a place of the verses
Mithuna1 · v.1 · vedha house 5: none
Karka12 · not a place of the verses
Siṃha11 · v.1 · vedha house 8: none
Kanyā10 · v.1 · vedha house 4: Sun, Mars, Venus
Tulā9 · not a place of the verses
Vṛścika8 · not a place of the verses
Dhanu7 · v.1 · vedha house 2: none
Makara6 · v.1 · vedha house 12: Sun, Mars, Venus
Kumbha5 · not a place of the verses
Mīna4 · not a place of the verses

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

An almanac convention of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra; no verse defining it was found in the classical muhūrta texts, and no verdict is added here.

Day-1 Kāla07:25 – 08:33
Day-2 Śubha08:33 – 09:41
Day-3 Roga09:41 – 10:50
Day-4 Udvega10:50 – 11:58
Day-5 Cara11:58 – 13:06
Day-6 Lābha13:06 – 14:15
Day-7 Amṛta14:15 – 15:23
Day-8 Kāla15:23 – 16:31

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Lābha16:31 – 18:23
Night-2 Amṛta18:23 – 20:15
Night-3 Kāla20:15 – 22:06
Night-4 Śubha22:06 – 23:58
Night-5 Roga23:58 – 01:50
Night-6 Udvega01:50 – 03:41
Night-7 Cara03:41 – 05:33
Night-8 Lābha05:33 – 07:25

🌐 Coordinates

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

🚶 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 locate the requested date inside this application's declared proleptic model. Kali Year uses 18 February 3102 BCE as a traditional epoch convention; that convention is not proof of Krishna's historical departure date. Ahargaṇa is this model's day-count from that epoch. Julian Day is a continuous astronomical day-number. Ayanāṁśa is the modelled sidereal/tropical angular offset. Sun-Moon angle determines the computed tithi (0-360° elongation / 12° per tithi).

Kali Year5127 · Kali-5127
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1872578.73 · 5126.9 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2461044.227711 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Sūrya Siddhānta III.9-10)22.9008° · the libration of the equinox, 27° either way, 600 turns in an Age
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)180.92° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 16/30)
🪷 Provenance & Methodology
Substrate:Vidhyamitra Sūrya-SiddhāntaMethod:Sūrya Siddhānta (Burgess 1860 text, no bīja): Sun and Moon by the equation of the apsis with the 24-sine tableTier-2 localization:the text's sunrise (II.59-63), ayanāṃśa (22.9008°, III.9-10) · declination -23.46° · EoT -0.23 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 seva surface · source not distributed (the bhakta's sole niṣkāma-karma-sevā)Computed for:2026-01-03 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)

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