पञ्चाङ्ग — Howrah, West Bengal · January 23, 2002 CE

पञ्चाङ्ग सार — Core Day Snapshot

Tithi
Śukla Navamī
9/30 · Śukla pakṣa
Nakshatra
Bharaṇī
Pada 4 · 2/27
Yoga
Śubha
23/27
Karaṇa
Kaulava
half-tithi 17/60
Vāra
Budhavāra (Wednesday)
weekday limb
Lunar month
Pauṣa
Pauṣa Śukla Pakṣa

Localized descent for Howrah, West Bengal; the universal day-axis remains anchored to the same date envelope.

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Pauṣa (Pauṣa Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2059 Manmatha
Śaka Saṁvat: 1924 Citrabhānu
Bengali Saṁvat: 1409
Malayalam Era: 1178
Nanakshahi: 533
Solar Month: Makara (Tai)
Ṛtu (Season): Hemanta (Pre-winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Navamī (9/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Bharaṇī Pada 4
योग (Yoga)Śubha
करण (Karaṇa)Kaulava
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
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 16.4 · Chapter 16 · दैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोग · Daivāsura-Sampad-Vibhāga-Yoga
दम्भो दर्पोऽभिमानश्च क्रोधः पारुष्यमेव च।अज्ञानं चाभिजातस्य पार्थ सम्पदमासुरीम्।।16.4।।
"16.4 Hypocrisy, pride, insolence, cruelty, ignorance belong to him who is born of the godless qualities." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 16.4's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya278.97°MakaraUttara Āṣāḍhā P4
चन्द्र Candra23.61°MeṣaBharaṇī P4
मङ्गल Maṅgala339.11°MīnaUttara Bhādrapadā P2
बुध Budha288.93°MakaraŚravaṇa P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati73.88°MithunaĀrdrā P3
शुक्र Śukra281.00°MakaraŚravaṇa P1
शनि Śani44.28°VṛṣabhaRohiṇī P2

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)06:19 IST
Sūryāsta (Sunset)17:19 IST
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:49 IST
Candrodaya (Moonrise)12:15 IST
Candrāsta (Moonset)01:19 IST
Dinamāna (Day Duration)10 Hours 59 Mins 52 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)13 Hours 00 Mins 08 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta04:51 – 05:35
Prātaḥ Sandhyā05:24 – 06:19
Abhijit Muhūrta11:27 – 12:11
Vijaya Muhūrta13:39 – 14:23
Godhūli Muhūrta17:07 – 17:31
Sāyāhna Sandhyā17:19 – 17:46
Amṛta Kāla17:04 – 18:49
Niśīta Muhūrta23:27 – 00:11

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla11:49 – 13:11
Yamaganda07:41 – 09:04
Gulika Kāla10:26 – 11:49
Varjyam06:46 – 07:04
Dur Muhūrta 08:53 – 09:15

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): North (Uttara)
Candra Vāsa: East
Rāhu Vāsa: South-West
Ānandādi Yoga: Padma (Auspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Śiśira (Winter) (tropical)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Tropical Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
Vedic Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

Favorable Nakshatras (Tara Bala, 15/27):
Kṛttikā · Rohiṇī · Mṛgaśirā · Ārdrā · Punarvasu · Uttara Phalgunī · Hasta · Citrā · Svātī · Viśākhā · Uttara Āṣāḍhā · Śravaṇa · Dhaniṣṭhā · Śatabhiṣaj · Pūrva Bhādrapadā
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12):
Meṣa · Mithuna · Kanyā · Tulā · Makara · Kumbha

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Labha06:19 – 07:41 (auspicious)
Day-2 Amṛta07:41 – 09:04 (auspicious)
Day-3 Kāla09:04 – 10:26 (inauspicious)
Day-4 Śubha10:26 – 11:49 (auspicious)
Day-5 Roga11:49 – 13:11 (inauspicious)
Day-6 Udveg13:11 – 14:34 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Chala14:34 – 15:56 (neutral)
Day-8 Labha15:56 – 17:19 (auspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Udveg17:19 – 18:56 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Chala18:56 – 20:34 (neutral)
Night-3 Labha20:34 – 22:11 (auspicious)
Night-4 Amṛta22:11 – 23:49 (auspicious)
Night-5 Kāla23:49 – 01:26 (inauspicious)
Night-6 Śubha01:26 – 03:04 (auspicious)
Night-7 Roga03:04 – 04:41 (inauspicious)
Night-8 Udveg04:41 – 06:19 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

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

🚶 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 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 Year5103 · Kali-5103
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1863832.27 · 5103.0 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2452297.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.8818° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)107.00° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 9/30)
🪷 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 (23.8818°) · declination -19.52° · EoT -11.81 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:2002-01-23 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)

Howrah, West Bengal 2002-01-23 City-Day Source-Anchor Spine

This route-proven spine makes the local day transparent: universal day-axis first, then the reader’s city/kṣetra, then local muhūrta, choghaḍiyā, hora, JSON envelopes, jyotiṣa references, dharmic timing applications, and the surrender boundary.

Howrah, West Bengal city routepage-local city darśana, LMT, closed-science sun-times, and local kṣetra orientation/citiesmaster Bhūmi city-access source spine and full Earth search doorwaycity search APImachine doorway for resolving the same city slug from the shipped city corpusHowrah, West Bengal city-daycity-localized pañchāṅga descent for this date and kṣetraHowrah, West Bengal muhūrtaRāhu-kālam, Yamagaṇḍa, Gulika, Abhijit, Brahma, and day-muhūrta companion routeHowrah, West Bengal choghaḍiyāday and night choghaḍiyā companion route for local action windowsHowrah, West Bengal hora24-hour graha-rulership companion route for local hora selectionHowrah, West Bengal complete pañchāṅgacomplete localized pañchāṅga route with muhūrta, choghaḍiyā, multi-ayanāṁśa, and local source spineuniversal day spineatomic day-axis before localization into this citymuhūrta JSON envelopemachine-readable local Rāhu-kālam, Gulika, Abhijit, and day-muhūrta datachoghaḍiyā JSON envelopemachine-readable day and night choghaḍiyā windows for this city and datehora JSON envelopemachine-readable active-hora sample for the same local city/day substrate/jyotisha-referencegraha, rāśi, nakshatra, tithi, karaṇa, and time-element source layer/samskara-muhurtarite-timing application that consumes the same city-localized time substrate/calculatorreader-local birth-chart doorway using the same city corpus/tirthassacred-geography spine layered over city and kṣetra accessBG 10.30kālaḥ kalayatām aham · Krishna as Time among reckonersBG 18.66surrender anchor that keeps timing support subordinate to Krishna/binducity as one kṣetra-aperture of the same Bindu-Source/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation