पञ्चाङ्ग — Seattle, USA · December 18, 1998 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: लोहड़ी — Lohri
Punjab harvest festival; eve of Makara Saṅkrānti. (Approximated as 13/14 January annually; correct via Sun in Dhanu/Makara cusp.)

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 3.25 · Chapter 3 · कर्मयोग · Karma-Yoga
सक्ताः कर्मण्यविद्वांसो यथा कुर्वन्ति भारत।

कुर्याद्विद्वांस्तथासक्तश्िचकीर्षुर्लोकसंग्रहम्।।3.25।।
"3.25 As the ignorant act, because of their fondness for action, so should the wise act without such attachment, fixing their eyes, O Arjuna, only on the welfare of the world." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 3.25's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Pauṣa (Pauṣa Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2055 Khara
Śaka Saṁvat: 1920 Bahudhānya
Bengali Saṁvat: 1405
Malayalam Era: 1174
Nanakshahi: 529
Solar Month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)
Ṛtu (Season): Hemanta (Pre-winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Amāvasyā (30/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Jyeṣṭhā Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Śūla
करण (Karaṇa)Catuṣpāda
वार (Vāra)Śukravāra (Friday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya242.07°DhanuMūla P1
चन्द्र Candra232.00°VṛścikaJyeṣṭhā P2
मङ्गल Maṅgala167.40°KanyāHasta P3
बुध Budha220.59°VṛścikaAnurādhā P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati326.29°KumbhaPūrva Bhādrapadā P2
शुक्र Śukra254.07°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P1
शनि Śani2.99°MeṣaAśvinī P1

☀️ Seattle, USA — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · UTC-8)

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)07:53 UTC-8
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:20 UTC-8
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)12:07 UTC-8
Candrodaya (Moonrise)07:11 UTC-8
Candrāsta (Moonset)15:41 UTC-8
Dinamāna (Day Duration)8 Hours 26 Mins 06 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)15 Hours 33 Mins 54 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta06:46 – 07:20
Prātaḥ Sandhyā07:11 – 07:53
Abhijit Muhūrta11:50 – 12:23
Vijaya Muhūrta13:31 – 14:05
Godhūli Muhūrta16:08 – 16:32
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:20 – 16:41
Amṛta Kāla16:05 – 17:50
Niśīta Muhūrta23:50 – 00:23

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla11:03 – 12:07
Yamaganda14:13 – 15:16
Gulika Kāla08:57 – 10:00
Varjyam08:15 – 08:28
Dur Muhūrta 09:52 – 10:08

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): West (Paścim)
Candra Vāsa: North-East
Rāhu Vāsa: South-East
Ānandādi Yoga: Mudgara (Inauspicious)
Drik Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Drik Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana
Vedic Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana

⭐ 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 · Siṃha · Kanyā · Vṛścika · Makara

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Chala07:53 – 08:57 (neutral)
Day-2 Labha08:57 – 10:00 (auspicious)
Day-3 Amṛta10:00 – 11:03 (auspicious)
Day-4 Kāla11:03 – 12:07 (inauspicious)
Day-5 Śubha12:07 – 13:10 (auspicious)
Day-6 Roga13:10 – 14:13 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Udveg14:13 – 15:16 (inauspicious)
Day-8 Chala15:16 – 16:20 (neutral)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Roga16:20 – 18:16 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Udveg18:16 – 20:13 (inauspicious)
Night-3 Chala20:13 – 22:10 (neutral)
Night-4 Labha22:10 – 00:07 (auspicious)
Night-5 Amṛta00:07 – 02:03 (auspicious)
Night-6 Kāla02:03 – 04:00 (inauspicious)
Night-7 Śubha04:00 – 05:57 (auspicious)
Night-8 Roga05:57 – 07:53 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 47.6062°
Longitude: -122.3321°
Timezone: UTC+-8

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

5 steps · graha walk
Śukravāra (Friday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Beauty + creativity in dharma + BG 10.36.

🌌 Cosmic-Historical Resonance

Today's Kṛṣṇa Amāvasyā + Jyeṣṭhā alignment also occurred on:
-3137-10-20Karṇa-Vadha (Mahābhārata Day 17) (same Kṛṣṇa Amāvasyā + Jyeṣṭhā)

🌌 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 Year5100 · Kali-5100
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1862700.27 · 5099.9 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2451165.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.8385° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)349.29° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 30/30)
🪷 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 (23.8385°) · declination -23.37° · EoT 2.79 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:1998-12-18 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)