पञ्चाङ्ग — Howrah, West Bengal · December 24, 1996 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: पौष पूर्णिमा — Pauṣa Pūrṇimā (Śākambharī Devī Jayantī)
Manifestation of Devī Śākambharī (vegetation-mother).

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 3.2 · Chapter 3 · कर्मयोग · Karma-Yoga
व्यामिश्रेणेव वाक्येन बुद्धिं मोहयसीव मे।

तदेकं वद निश्िचत्य येन श्रेयोऽहमाप्नुयाम्।।3.2।।
"3.2 Thy language perplexes me and confuses my reason. Therefore please tell me the only way by which I may, without doubt, secure my spiritual welfare." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 3.2's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Pauṣa (Pauṣa Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2053 Virodhi
Śaka Saṁvat: 1918 Dhātṛ
Bengali Saṁvat: 1403
Malayalam Era: 1172
Nanakshahi: 527
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 3
योग (Yoga)Śukla
करण (Karaṇa)Viṣṭi
वार (Vāra)Maṅgalavāra (Tuesday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya248.70°DhanuMūla P3
चन्द्र Candra59.27°VṛṣabhaMr̥gaśirā P2
मङ्गल Maṅgala152.56°KanyāUttara Phalgunī P2
बुध Budha265.56°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P4
गुरु Bṛhaspati269.60°DhanuUttara Āṣāḍhā P1
शुक्र Śukra224.73°VṛścikaAnurādhā P4
शनि Śani337.16°MīnaUttara Bhādrapadā P2

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)06:15 IST
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:59 IST
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:37 IST
Candrodaya (Moonrise)16:15 IST
Candrāsta (Moonset)05:43 IST
Dinamāna (Day Duration)10 Hours 44 Mins 56 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)13 Hours 15 Mins 04 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta04:49 – 05:32
Prātaḥ Sandhyā05:21 – 06:15
Abhijit Muhūrta11:15 – 11:58
Vijaya Muhūrta13:24 – 14:07
Godhūli Muhūrta16:47 – 17:11
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:59 – 17:26
Amṛta Kāla16:44 – 18:29
Niśīta Muhūrta23:15 – 23:58

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla14:18 – 15:39
Yamaganda08:56 – 10:16
Gulika Kāla11:37 – 12:58
Varjyam06:41 – 06:59
Dur Muhūrta 08:45 – 09:06

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): North (Uttara)
Candra Vāsa: South-East
Rāhu Vāsa: North
Ānandādi Yoga: Mānasa (Auspicious)
Drik Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter) (Drik)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Drik Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
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 Roga06:15 – 07:35 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Udveg07:35 – 08:56 (inauspicious)
Day-3 Chala08:56 – 10:16 (neutral)
Day-4 Labha10:16 – 11:37 (auspicious)
Day-5 Amṛta11:37 – 12:58 (auspicious)
Day-6 Kāla12:58 – 14:18 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Śubha14:18 – 15:39 (auspicious)
Day-8 Roga15:39 – 16:59 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Kāla16:59 – 18:39 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Śubha18:39 – 20:18 (auspicious)
Night-3 Roga20:18 – 21:58 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Udveg21:58 – 23:37 (inauspicious)
Night-5 Chala23:37 – 01:16 (neutral)
Night-6 Labha01:16 – 02:56 (auspicious)
Night-7 Amṛta02:56 – 04:35 (auspicious)
Night-8 Kāla04:35 – 06:15 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

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

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

7 steps · graha walk
Maṅgalavāra (Tuesday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Right action + BG 2.31-38 (kṣatriya-dharma).

🌌 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 Year5098 · Kali-5098
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1861976.27 · 5097.9 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2450441.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.8108° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)171.78° · 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 (23.8108°) · declination -23.41° · EoT -0.03 min · verified ±1 min vs DrikpanchangLineage: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:1996-12-24 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)