पञ्चाङ्ग — Ranchi, Jharkhand · March 16, 1916 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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🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 2.13 · Chapter 2 · सांख्ययोग · Sāṅkhya-Yoga
देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा।

तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति।।2.13।।
"2.13 As the soul experiences in this body infancy, youth and old age, so finally it passes into another. The wise have no delusion about this." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 2.13's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Phālguna (Phālguna Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 1973 Śukla
Śaka Saṁvat: 1838 Nala
Bengali Saṁvat: 1323
Malayalam Era: 1092
Nanakshahi: 447
Solar Month: Mīna (Paṅkuṇi)
Ṛtu (Season): Śiśira (Winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Dvādaśī (12/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Āśleṣā Pada 1
योग (Yoga)Sukarma
करण (Karaṇa)Bava
वार (Vāra)Guruvāra (Thursday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya332.45°MīnaPūrva Bhādrapadā P4
चन्द्र Candra109.07°KarkaAśleṣā P1
मङ्गल Maṅgala109.04°KarkaAśleṣā P1
बुध Budha310.00°KumbhaŚatabhiṣā P1
गुरु Bṛhaspati345.60°MīnaUttara Bhādrapadā P4
शुक्र Śukra15.59°MeṣaBharaṇī P1
शनि Śani77.53°MithunaĀrdrā P4

☀️ Ranchi, Jharkhand — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · IST)

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)05:58 IST
Sūryāsta (Sunset)17:58 IST
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:58 IST
Candrodaya (Moonrise)14:31 IST
Candrāsta (Moonset)03:38 IST
Dinamāna (Day Duration)12 Hours 00 Mins 35 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)11 Hours 59 Mins 25 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta04:22 – 05:10
Prātaḥ Sandhyā04:58 – 05:58
Abhijit Muhūrta11:34 – 12:22
Vijaya Muhūrta13:58 – 14:46
Godhūli Muhūrta17:46 – 18:10
Sāyāhna Sandhyā17:58 – 18:28
Amṛta Kāla17:43 – 19:28
Niśīta Muhūrta23:34 – 00:22

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla13:28 – 14:58
Yamaganda05:58 – 07:28
Gulika Kāla08:58 – 10:28
Varjyam06:28 – 06:47
Dur Muhūrta 08:46 – 09:10

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): South (Dakṣiṇa)
Candra Vāsa: South-West
Rāhu Vāsa: North-West
Ānandādi Yoga: Rākṣasa (Inauspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Śiśira (Winter)
Vedic Ṛtu: Śiśira (Winter)
Tropical Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
Vedic Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

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

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Śubha05:58 – 07:28 (auspicious)
Day-2 Roga07:28 – 08:58 (inauspicious)
Day-3 Udveg08:58 – 10:28 (inauspicious)
Day-4 Chala10:28 – 11:58 (neutral)
Day-5 Labha11:58 – 13:28 (auspicious)
Day-6 Amṛta13:28 – 14:58 (auspicious)
Day-7 Kāla14:58 – 16:28 (inauspicious)
Day-8 Śubha16:28 – 17:58 (auspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Amṛta17:58 – 19:28 (auspicious)
Night-2 Kāla19:28 – 20:58 (inauspicious)
Night-3 Śubha20:58 – 22:28 (auspicious)
Night-4 Roga22:28 – 23:58 (inauspicious)
Night-5 Udveg23:58 – 01:28 (inauspicious)
Night-6 Chala01:28 – 02:58 (neutral)
Night-7 Labha02:58 – 04:28 (auspicious)
Night-8 Amṛta04:28 – 05:58 (auspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 23.3441°
Longitude: 85.3096°
Timezone: UTC+5.5

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

8 steps · graha walk
Guruvāra (Thursday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Wisdom transmission + BG 4.34.

🌌 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 Year5017 · Kali-5017
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1832473.27 · 5017.1 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2420938.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)22.6824° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)135.72° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 12/30)
🪷 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 (22.6824°) · declination -1.94° · EoT -9.36 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:1916-03-16 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)