The day's tithi, nakṣatra, yoga and karaṇa are those at sunrise in Edison, NJ, USA, by the Sūrya Siddhānta (II.59-63).
🪷 आज: भगवान् नारद जयन्ती — Bhagavān Nārada Jayantī
Manifestation of Devarṣi Nārada — ādi-bhakta and tri-loka-saṅcāri who instructed Vyāsa to compose Śrīmad Bhāgavata. Without Nārada, no Bhāgavata; without Bhāgavata, no Krishna-tattva-pratiṣṭhā in Kali Yuga. Falls on Vaiśākha Kṛṣṇa Pratipadā (day after Buddha Pūrṇimā).
📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions
Lunar Month:Jyeṣṭha (Jyeṣṭha Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2083 Siddhārthī
Śaka Saṁvat: 1948 Parābhava
Bengali Saṁvat: 1433
Malayalam Era: 1201
Nanakshahi: 558
Solar Month:Mēsha (Cittirai / Vaiśākhī)
Ṛtu (Season): Grīṣma (Summer)
🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)
तिथि (Tithi)
Kṛṣṇa Pratipada (16/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)
Viśākhā Pada 2
योग (Yoga)
Vyatīpāta
करण (Karaṇa)
Kaulava
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
"8.17 Those who understand the cosmic day and cosmic night know that one day of creation is a thousand cycles, and that the night is of equal length." — Shri Purohit Swami
15 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
Niśītha
23:45 – 00:25
the 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 Kālam
05:11 – 06:55
Saturn'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) Kālam
13:49 – 15:33
Jupiter'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 Kālam
08:38 – 10:22
part 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: 20. Śubha (Viśākhā, counted from Śatabhiṣaj) (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: Vasanta (Spring) (tropical)
Vedic Ṛtu: Vasanta (Spring)
Tropical Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
Vedic Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
⭐ 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: Viśākhā.
1. Janma
Punarvasu · Viśākhā · Pūrva Bhādrapadā
2. Sampat
Ārdrā · Svātī · Śatabhiṣaj
3. Vipat
Mṛgaśirā · Citrā · Dhaniṣṭhā
4. Kṣema
Rohiṇī · Hasta · Śravaṇa
5. Pratyari
Kṛttikā · Uttara Phalgunī · Uttara Āṣāḍhā
6. Sādhaka
Bharaṇī · Pūrva Phalgunī · Pūrva Āṣāḍhā
7. Vadha
Aśvinī · Maghā · Mūla
8. Maitra
Aśleṣā · Jyeṣṭhā · Revatī
9. Atimaitra
Puṣya · Anurādhā · Uttara 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 Tulā. Not computed: the vedha of the v.4 places (the ṭīkā gives 6, 8, 4; not checked against a second edition).
Janma rāśi
Moon's house · place · vedha
Meṣa
7 · v.1 · vedha house 2: Venus
Vṛṣabha
6 · v.1 · vedha house 12: Sun
Mithuna
5 · not a place of the verses
Karka
4 · not a place of the verses
Siṃha
3 · v.1 · vedha house 9: Sun
Kanyā
2 · not a place of the verses
Tulā
1 · v.1 · vedha house 5: Rāhu
Vṛścika
12 · not a place of the verses
Dhanu
11 · v.1 · vedha house 8: none
Makara
10 · v.1 · vedha house 4: Sun
Kumbha
9 · not a place of the verses
Mīna
8 · 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.
🌌 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 Year
5128 · Kali-5128
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)
1872697.64 · 5127.3 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day
2461163.135003 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Sūrya Siddhānta III.9-10)
22.9057° · the libration of the equinox, 27° either way, 600 turns in an Age
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 (22.9057°, III.9-10) · declination 15.41° · EoT -7.65 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:2026-05-02 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)
Sources and Related Local Readings
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