पञ्चाङ्ग — Howrah, West Bengal · December 21, 1980 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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🪷 आज: दत्त जयन्ती — Datta Jayantī
Birth of Dattātreya from Atri-Anusūyā; tri-mūrti unified avatāra.

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 16.12 · Chapter 16 · दैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोग · Daivāsura-Sampad-Vibhāga-Yoga
आशापाशशतैर्बद्धाः कामक्रोधपरायणाः।ईहन्ते कामभोगार्थमन्यायेनार्थसञ्चयान्।।16.12।।
"16.12 Caught in the toils of a hundred vain hopes, the slaves of passion and wrath, they accumulate hoards of unjust wealth, only to pander to their sensual desire." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 16.12's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Mārgaśīrṣa (Mārgaśīrṣa Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2037 Śrīmukha
Śaka Saṁvat: 1902 Raudra
Bengali Saṁvat: 1387
Malayalam Era: 1156
Nanakshahi: 511
Solar Month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)
Ṛtu (Season): Hemanta (Pre-winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Pūrṇimā (15/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Mṛgaśīrṣā Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Śubha
करण (Karaṇa)Viṣṭi
वार (Vāra)Ravivāra (Sunday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya245.75°DhanuMūla P2
चन्द्र Candra56.06°VṛṣabhaMr̥gaśirā P1
मङ्गल Maṅgala269.01°DhanuUttara Āṣāḍhā P1
बुध Budha240.14°DhanuMūla P1
गुरु Bṛhaspati165.00°KanyāHasta P2
शुक्र Śukra220.15°VṛścikaAnurādhā P3
शनि Śani165.22°KanyāHasta P2

☀️ Howrah, West Bengal — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · IST)

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)06:13 IST
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:58 IST
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:36 IST
Candrodaya (Moonrise)16:13 IST
Candrāsta (Moonset)05:40 IST
Dinamāna (Day Duration)10 Hours 44 Mins 51 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)13 Hours 15 Mins 09 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta04:47 – 05:30
Prātaḥ Sandhyā05:19 – 06:13
Abhijit Muhūrta11:14 – 11:57
Vijaya Muhūrta13:23 – 14:06
Godhūli Muhūrta16:46 – 17:10
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:58 – 17:25
Amṛta Kāla16:43 – 18:28
Niśīta Muhūrta23:14 – 23:57

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla15:37 – 16:58
Yamaganda11:36 – 12:56
Gulika Kāla14:17 – 15:37
Varjyam06:40 – 06:57
Dur Muhūrta 08:44 – 09:05

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): West (Paścim)
Candra Vāsa: South-East
Rāhu Vāsa: North-East
Ānandādi Yoga: Saumya (Auspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Tropical Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana
Vedic Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

Favorable Nakshatras (Tara Bala, 15/27):
Aśvinī · Ārdrā · Punarvasu · Puṣya · Aśleṣā · Maghā · Svātī · Viśākhā · Anurādhā · Jyeṣṭhā · Mūla · Śatabhiṣaj · Pūrva Bhādrapadā · Uttara Bhādrapadā · Revatī
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12):
Vṛṣabha · Karka · Tulā · Vṛścika · Kumbha · Mīna

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Udveg06:13 – 07:34 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Chala07:34 – 08:54 (neutral)
Day-3 Labha08:54 – 10:15 (auspicious)
Day-4 Amṛta10:15 – 11:36 (auspicious)
Day-5 Kāla11:36 – 12:56 (inauspicious)
Day-6 Śubha12:56 – 14:17 (auspicious)
Day-7 Roga14:17 – 15:37 (inauspicious)
Day-8 Udveg15:37 – 16:58 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Śubha16:58 – 18:37 (auspicious)
Night-2 Roga18:37 – 20:17 (inauspicious)
Night-3 Udveg20:17 – 21:56 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Chala21:56 – 23:36 (neutral)
Night-5 Labha23:36 – 01:15 (auspicious)
Night-6 Amṛta01:15 – 02:54 (auspicious)
Night-7 Kāla02:54 – 04:34 (inauspicious)
Night-8 Śubha04:34 – 06:13 (auspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 22.5958°
Longitude: 88.2636°
Timezone: UTC+5.5

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

6 steps · graha walk
Ravivāra (Sunday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Self-illumination + BG 4.1 (Sun-lineage of Gītā transmission).

🌌 Cosmic-Historical Resonance

Today's Śukla Pūrṇimā + Mṛgaśīrṣā alignment also occurred on:
-3137-10-04Mahābhārata Day 1 (Bhagavad Gītā delivered) (same Śukla Pūrṇimā)
-0562-04-11Bhagavān Buddha's birth at Lumbinī (same Śukla Pūrṇimā)

🌌 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 Year5082 · Kali-5082
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1856129.27 · 5081.9 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2444594.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.5872° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)172.04° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 15/30)
🪷 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 (23.5872°) · declination -23.43° · EoT 1.38 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:1980-12-21 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)