← पूर्व दिन 1996-08-15 अयं दिनः · this day अग्रिम दिन 1996-08-17 → «« last year (1995-08-16) « last month (1996-07-16) · next month (1996-09-16) » next year (1997-08-16) »» पञ्चाङ्ग — Jamnagar, Gujarat · August 16, 1996 CE पञ्चाङ्ग सार — Core Five-Limb Snapshot Tithi
Śukla Dvitīyā
2/30 · Śukla pakṣa
Nakshatra
Pūrva Phalgunī
Pada 2 · 11/27
Karaṇa
Kaulava
half-tithi 3/60
Vāra
Śukravāra (Friday)
weekday limb
Calendar context: Śrāvaṇa (Śrāvaṇa Śukla Pakṣa) · Solar month: Karkaṭa (Āḍi)
Localized descent for Jamnagar, Gujarat; the universal day-axis remains anchored to the same date envelope.
📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions Lunar Month: Śrāvaṇa (Śrāvaṇa Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2053 Virodhi
Śaka Saṁvat: 1918 Dhātṛ
Bengali Saṁvat: 1403
Malayalam Era: 1172
Nanakshahi: 527
Solar Month: Karkaṭa (Āḍi)
Ṛtu (Season): Varṣā (Monsoon)
🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements) तिथि (Tithi) Śukla Dvitīyā (2/30)नक्षत्र (Nakshatra) Pūrva Phalgunī Pada 2योग (Yoga) Śiva करण (Karaṇa) Kaulava वार (Vāra) Śukravāra (Friday)
🕉️ 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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?format=json 🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 18.69 · Chapter 18 ·
मोक्षसंन्यासयोग · Mokṣa-Sannyāsa-Yoga
न च तस्मान्मनुष्येषु कश्िचन्मे प्रियकृत्तमः।भविता न च मे तस्मादन्यः प्रियतरो भुवि।।18.69।।
"18.69 Nor is there among men any who can perform a service dearer to Me than this, or any man on earth more beloved by Me than he." — Shri Purohit Swami
🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri) Graha Longitude Rāśi Nakshatra सूर्य Sūrya 119.65° Karka Aśleṣā P4चन्द्र Candra 138.63° Siṃha Pūrva Phalgunī P2मङ्गल Maṅgala 80.38° Mithuna Punarvasu P1बुध Budha 146.44° Siṃha Pūrva Phalgunī P4गुरु Bṛhaspati 254.62° Dhanu Pūrva Āṣāḍhā P1शुक्र Śukra 73.92° Mithuna Ārdrā P3शनि Śani 342.90° Mīna Uttara Bhādrapadā P3
☀️ Jamnagar, Gujarat — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · IST) Sūryodaya (Sunrise) 06:27 IST Sūryāsta (Sunset) 19:21 IST Madhyāhna (Solar Noon) 12:54 IST Candrodaya (Moonrise) 07:56 IST Candrāsta (Moonset) 20:24 IST Dinamāna (Day Duration) 12 Hours 53 Mins 45 Secs Rātrimāna (Night Duration) 11 Hours 06 Mins 15 Secs
✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings Brahma Muhūrta 04:44 – 05:35 Prātaḥ Sandhyā 05:22 – 06:27 Abhijit Muhūrta 12:28 – 13:20 Vijaya Muhūrta 15:03 – 15:54 Godhūli Muhūrta 19:09 – 19:33 Sāyāhna Sandhyā 19:21 – 19:53 Amṛta Kāla 19:06 – 20:51 Niśīta Muhūrta 00:28 – 01:20
⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid) Rāhu Kāla 11:17 – 12:54 Yamaganda 16:07 – 17:44 Gulika Kāla 08:04 – 09:40 Varjyam 06:59 – 07:20 Dur Muhūrta 09:27 – 09:53
🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): West (Paścim)
Candra Vāsa: West
Rāhu Vāsa: South-East
Ānandādi Yoga: Dhūmra (Inauspicious)
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): Kṛttikā · Rohiṇī · Mṛgaśirā · Ārdrā · Punarvasu · Uttara Phalgunī · Hasta · Citrā · Svātī · Viśākhā · Uttara Āṣāḍhā · Śravaṇa · Dhaniṣṭhā · Śatabhiṣaj · Pūrva Bhādrapadā
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12): Vṛṣabha · Mithuna · Siṃha · Tulā · Makara · Kumbha
🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows Day-1 Chala 06:27 – 08:04 (neutral) Day-2 Labha 08:04 – 09:40 (auspicious) Day-3 Amṛta 09:40 – 11:17 (auspicious) Day-4 Kāla 11:17 – 12:54 (inauspicious) Day-5 Śubha 12:54 – 14:30 (auspicious) Day-6 Roga 14:30 – 16:07 (inauspicious) Day-7 Udveg 16:07 – 17:44 (inauspicious) Day-8 Chala 17:44 – 19:21 (neutral)
Choghaḍiyā Night Windows Night-1 Roga 19:21 – 20:44 (inauspicious) Night-2 Udveg 20:44 – 22:07 (inauspicious) Night-3 Chala 22:07 – 23:30 (neutral) Night-4 Labha 23:30 – 00:54 (auspicious) Night-5 Amṛta 00:54 – 02:17 (auspicious) Night-6 Kāla 02:17 – 03:40 (inauspicious) Night-7 Śubha 03:40 – 05:04 (auspicious) Night-8 Roga 05:04 – 06:27 (inauspicious)
🌐 Coordinates Latitude: 22.4707°
Longitude: 70.0577°
Timezone: UTC+5.5
🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk 5 steps · graha walkŚukravāra (Friday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Beauty + creativity in dharma +
BG 10.36 .
🌌 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 Year 5098 · Kali-5098 Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch) 1861846.27 · 5097.6 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight Julian Day 2450311.770833 · universal astronomical day-count Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri) 23.8058° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr Sun-Moon angle (elongation) 20.84° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 2/30)
🪷 Provenance & Methodology
Substrate: Vidhyamitra Sūrya-Siddhānta Method: Sūrya Siddhānta + Bhāskara-II iterative manda + Kerala-school (Mādhava-Nīlakaṇṭha) evection + variation + annual equation Tier-2 localization: spherical astronomy + Lahiri ayanāṁśa (23.8058°) · declination 13.70° · EoT -3.97 min · city civil-time localization Lineage: Bhṛgu → Vyāsa → Maitreya → Āryabhaṭa → Brahmagupta → Bhāskara I → Bhāskara II → Mādhava → Parameśvara → Nīlakaṇṭha → Jyeṣṭhadeva → Vidhyamitra Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate Access: Self-hosted substrate · the deployed website is the public seva surface · source not distributed (the bhakta's sole niṣkāma-karma-sevā) Computed for: 1996-08-16 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled) Jamnagar, Gujarat 1996-08-16 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.
Jamnagar, Gujarat city route page-local city darśana, LMT, closed-science sun-times, and local kṣetra orientation /cities master Bhūmi city-access source spine and full Earth search doorway city search API machine doorway for resolving the same city slug from the shipped city corpus Jamnagar, Gujarat city-day city-localized pañchāṅga descent for this date and kṣetra Jamnagar, Gujarat muhūrta Rāhu-kālam, Yamagaṇḍa, Gulika, Abhijit, Brahma, and day-muhūrta companion route Jamnagar, Gujarat choghaḍiyā day and night choghaḍiyā companion route for local action windows Jamnagar, Gujarat hora 24-hour graha-rulership companion route for local hora selection Jamnagar, Gujarat complete pañchāṅga complete localized pañchāṅga route with muhūrta, choghaḍiyā, multi-ayanāṁśa, and local source spine universal day spine atomic day-axis before localization into this city muhūrta JSON envelope machine-readable local Rāhu-kālam, Gulika, Abhijit, and day-muhūrta data choghaḍiyā JSON envelope machine-readable day and night choghaḍiyā windows for this city and date hora JSON envelope machine-readable active-hora sample for the same local city/day substrate /jyotisha-reference graha, rāśi, nakshatra, tithi, karaṇa, and time-element source layer /samskara-muhurta rite-timing application that consumes the same city-localized time substrate /calculator reader-local birth-chart doorway using the same city corpus /tirthas sacred-geography spine layered over city and kṣetra access BG 10.30 kālaḥ kalayatām aham · Krishna as Time among reckoners BG 18.66 surrender anchor that keeps timing support subordinate to Krishna /bindu city as one kṣetra-aperture of the same Bindu-Source /philosophy Krishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation