पञ्चाङ्ग — Houston, USA · January 15, 2025 CE

पञ्चाङ्ग सार — Core Five-Limb Snapshot

Tithi
Kṛṣṇa Dvitīyā
17/30 · Kṛṣṇa pakṣa
Nakshatra
Āśleṣā
Pada 2 · 9/27
Yoga
Prīti
2/27
Karaṇa
Gara
half-tithi 33/60
Vāra
Budhavāra (Wednesday)
weekday limb
Calendar context: Māgha (Māgha Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa) · Solar month: Makara (Tai)

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

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Māgha (Māgha Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2081 Piṅgala
Śaka Saṁvat: 1946 Krodhi
Bengali Saṁvat: 1431
Malayalam Era: 1200
Nanakshahi: 556
Solar Month: Makara (Tai)
Ṛtu (Season): Śiśira (Winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Dvitīyā (17/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Āśleṣā Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Prīti
करण (Karaṇa)Gara
वार (Vāra)Budhavāra (Wednesday)
🕉️ 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 15.5 · Chapter 15 · पुरुषोत्तमयोग · Puruṣottama-Yoga
निर्मानमोहा जितसङ्गदोषा अध्यात्मनित्या विनिवृत्तकामाः।द्वन्द्वैर्विमुक्ताः सुखदुःखसंज्ञै र्गच्छन्त्यमूढाः पदमव्ययं तत्।।15.5।।
"15.5 The wise attain Eternity when, freed from pride and delusion, they have conquered their love for the things of sense; when, renouncing desire and fixing their gaze on the Self, they have ceased to be tossed to and fro by the opposing sensations, like pleasure and pain." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 15.5's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

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

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya271.20°MakaraUttara Āṣāḍhā P2
चन्द्र Candra110.89°KarkaĀśleṣā P2
मङ्गल Maṅgala92.97°KarkaPunarvasu P4
बुध Budha256.11°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P1
गुरु Bṛhaspati52.65°VṛṣabhaRohiṇī P4
शुक्र Śukra316.55°KumbhaŚatabhiṣā P3
शनि Śani313.99°KumbhaŚatabhiṣā P3

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)07:16 UTC-6
Sūryāsta (Sunset)17:31 UTC-6
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)12:24 UTC-6
Candrodaya (Moonrise)19:31 UTC-6
Candrāsta (Moonset)08:36 UTC-6
Dinamāna (Day Duration)10 Hours 14 Mins 59 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)13 Hours 45 Mins 01 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 – 06:21the 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 Muhūrta12:03 – 12:44the 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")
Godhūli17:25 – 17:3715 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
Niśītha23:56 – 00:51the 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 Kālam11:07 – 12:24Saturn's eighth of the day: part 4 of 8, counted from Mercury · 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) Kālam08:33 – 09:50Jupiter's eighth of the day: part 2 of 8, counted from Mercury · 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 Kālam12:24 – 13:41part 5 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: North (Nārada-saṃhitā 33.5 (and Muhūrtacintāmaṇi, Yātrā 10): "na vrajet", one should not set out that way on that weekday)
Candra Vāsa: North (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: 25. Rākṣasa (Āśleṣā, counted from Hasta); left out in a necessary undertaking: the whole day (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)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
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: Aśleṣā.

1. JanmaAśleṣā · Jyeṣṭhā · Revatī
2. SampatPuṣya · Anurādhā · Uttara Bhādrapadā
3. VipatPunarvasu · Viśākhā · Pūrva Bhādrapadā
4. KṣemaĀrdrā · Svātī · Śatabhiṣaj
5. PratyariMṛgaśirā · Citrā · Dhaniṣṭhā
6. SādhakaRohiṇī · Hasta · Śravaṇa
7. VadhaKṛttikā · Uttara Phalgunī · Uttara Āṣāḍhā
8. MaitraBharaṇī · Pūrva Phalgunī · Pūrva Āṣāḍhā
9. AtimaitraAśvinī · Maghā · Mūla

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 Karka. 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
Meṣa4 · not a place of the verses
Vṛṣabha3 · v.1 · vedha house 9: Sun
Mithuna2 · not a place of the verses
Karka1 · v.1 · vedha house 5: none
Siṃha12 · not a place of the verses
Kanyā11 · v.1 · vedha house 8: none
Tulā10 · v.1 · vedha house 4: Sun
Vṛścika9 · not a place of the verses
Dhanu8 · not a place of the verses
Makara7 · v.1 · vedha house 2: Venus, Saturn
Kumbha6 · v.1 · vedha house 12: Sun
Mīna5 · 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 Lābha07:16 – 08:33
Day-2 Amṛta08:33 – 09:50
Day-3 Kāla09:50 – 11:07
Day-4 Śubha11:07 – 12:24
Day-5 Roga12:24 – 13:41
Day-6 Udvega13:41 – 14:57
Day-7 Cara14:57 – 16:14
Day-8 Lābha16:14 – 17:31

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Udvega17:31 – 19:14
Night-2 Cara19:14 – 20:57
Night-3 Lābha20:57 – 22:41
Night-4 Amṛta22:41 – 00:24
Night-5 Kāla00:24 – 02:07
Night-6 Śubha02:07 – 03:50
Night-7 Roga03:50 – 05:33
Night-8 Udvega05:33 – 07:16

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 29.7604°
Longitude: -95.3698°
Timezone: UTC+-6

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

6 steps · graha walk
Budhavāra (Wednesday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Discrimination + BG 2.41 (vyavasāyātmikā buddhi).

🌌 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 Year5126 · Kali-5126
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1872225.76 · 5126.0 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2460691.263415 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Sūrya Siddhānta III.9-10)22.8863° · the libration of the equinox, 27° either way, 600 turns in an Age
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)199.70° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 17/30)
🪷 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 (22.8863°, III.9-10) · declination -21.75° · EoT -2.08 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:2025-01-15 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)

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