पञ्चाङ्ग — Howrah, West Bengal · August 14, 2004 CE

पञ्चाङ्ग सार — Core Five-Limb Snapshot

Tithi
Kṛṣṇa Caturdaśī
29/30 · Kṛṣṇa pakṣa
Nakshatra
Puṣya
Pada 1 · 8/27
Yoga
Siddhi
16/27
Karaṇa
Viṣṭi
half-tithi 56/60
Vāra
Śanivāra (Saturday)
weekday limb
Calendar context: Śrāvaṇa (Śrāvaṇa (Adhika) Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa) · Solar month: Karkaṭa (Āḍi)

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

🪷 आज: मासिक शिवरात्रि — Māsika Śivarātri
Monthly Śiva observance.

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Śrāvaṇa (Śrāvaṇa (Adhika) Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2061 Hemalambī
Śaka Saṁvat: 1926 Tāraṇa
Bengali Saṁvat: 1411
Malayalam Era: 1180
Nanakshahi: 535
Solar Month: Karkaṭa (Āḍi)
Ṛtu (Season): Varṣā (Monsoon)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Caturdaśī (29/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Puṣya Pada 1
योग (Yoga)Siddhi
करण (Karaṇa)Viṣṭi
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
🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 2.60 · Chapter 2 · सांख्ययोग · Sāṅkhya-Yoga
यततो ह्यपि कौन्तेय पुरुषस्य विपश्चितः।

इन्द्रियाणि प्रमाथीनि हरन्ति प्रसभं मनः।।2.60।।
"2.60 O Arjuna! The mind of him, who is trying to conquer it, is forcibly carried away in spite of his efforts, by his tumultuous senses." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 2.60's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya117.68°KarkaAśleṣā P4
चन्द्र Candra94.80°KarkaPuṣya P1
मङ्गल Maṅgala128.33°SiṃhaMaghā P3
बुध Budha134.19°SiṃhaPūrva Phalgunī P1
गुरु Bṛhaspati147.41°SiṃhaUttara Phalgunī P1
शुक्र Śukra71.86°MithunaĀrdrā P2
शनि Śani87.39°MithunaPunarvasu P3

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)05:13 IST
Sūryāsta (Sunset)18:09 IST
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:41 IST
Candrodaya (Moonrise)03:31 IST
Candrāsta (Moonset)16:48 IST
Dinamāna (Day Duration)12 Hours 56 Mins 14 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)11 Hours 03 Mins 46 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta03:30 – 04:21
Prātaḥ Sandhyā04:09 – 05:13
Abhijit Muhūrta11:15 – 12:07
Vijaya Muhūrta13:51 – 14:42
Godhūli Muhūrta17:57 – 18:21
Sāyāhna Sandhyā18:09 – 18:42
Amṛta Kāla17:54 – 19:39
Niśīta Muhūrta23:15 – 00:07

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla08:27 – 10:04
Yamaganda13:18 – 14:55
Gulika Kāla05:13 – 06:50
Varjyam05:46 – 06:06
Dur Muhūrta 08:14 – 08:40

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): East (Pūrva)
Candra Vāsa: South-West
Rāhu Vāsa: East
Ānandādi Yoga: Prajāpati (Auspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Varṣā (Monsoon) (tropical)
Vedic Ṛtu: Grīṣma (Summer)
Tropical Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana
Vedic Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

Favorable Nakshatras (Tara Bala, 15/27):
Aśvinī · Bharaṇī · Kṛttikā · Rohiṇī · Aśleṣā · Maghā · Pūrva Phalgunī · Uttara Phalgunī · Hasta · Jyeṣṭhā · Mūla · Pūrva Āṣāḍhā · Uttara Āṣāḍhā · Śravaṇa · Revatī
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12):
Meṣa · Vṛṣabha · Karka · Kanyā · Dhanu · Makara

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Kāla05:13 – 06:50 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Śubha06:50 – 08:27 (auspicious)
Day-3 Roga08:27 – 10:04 (inauspicious)
Day-4 Udveg10:04 – 11:41 (inauspicious)
Day-5 Chala11:41 – 13:18 (neutral)
Day-6 Labha13:18 – 14:55 (auspicious)
Day-7 Amṛta14:55 – 16:32 (auspicious)
Day-8 Kāla16:32 – 18:09 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Labha18:09 – 19:32 (auspicious)
Night-2 Amṛta19:32 – 20:55 (auspicious)
Night-3 Kāla20:55 – 22:18 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Śubha22:18 – 23:41 (auspicious)
Night-5 Roga23:41 – 01:04 (inauspicious)
Night-6 Udveg01:04 – 02:27 (inauspicious)
Night-7 Chala02:27 – 03:50 (neutral)
Night-8 Labha03:50 – 05:13 (auspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

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

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

7 steps · graha walk
Dedicated festival walk for Māsika Śivarātri is not live yet; Śanivāra (Saturday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Tapas + endurance + BG 17.14-19.

🌌 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 Year5106 · Kali-5106
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1864766.27 · 5105.6 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2453231.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.9175° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)336.28° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 29/30)
🪷 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 (23.9175°) · declination 14.30° · EoT -4.37 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:2004-08-14 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)

Howrah, West Bengal 2004-08-14 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