पञ्चाङ्ग — Vancouver, Canada · August 31, 2018 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 8.20 · Chapter 8 · अक्षरब्रह्मयोग · Akṣara-Brahma-Yoga
परस्तस्मात्तु भावोऽन्योऽव्यक्तोऽव्यक्तात्सनातनः।

यः स सर्वेषु भूतेषु नश्यत्सु न विनश्यति।।8.20।।
"8.20 In truth, therefore, there is the Eternal Unmanifest, which is beyond and above the Unmanifest Spirit of Creation, which is never destroyed when all these being perish." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 8.20's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Bhādrapada (Bhādrapada Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2075 Virodhakṛt
Śaka Saṁvat: 1940 Vilambī
Bengali Saṁvat: 1425
Malayalam Era: 1194
Nanakshahi: 549
Solar Month: Siṃha (Āvaṇi)
Ṛtu (Season): Varṣā (Monsoon)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Pañcamī (20/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Aśvinī Pada 3
योग (Yoga)Vṛddhi
करण (Karaṇa)Taitila
वार (Vāra)Śukravāra (Friday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya133.50°SiṃhaPūrva Phalgunī P1
चन्द्र Candra5.62°MeṣaAśvinī P2
मङ्गल Maṅgala274.32°MakaraUttara Āṣāḍhā P3
बुध Budha115.88°KarkaAśleṣā P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati202.83°TulāViśākhā P1
शुक्र Śukra178.37°KanyāCitrā P2
शनि Śani248.35°DhanuMūla P3

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

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)05:26 UTC-8
Sūryāsta (Sunset)18:59 UTC-8
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)12:12 UTC-8
Candrodaya (Moonrise)20:43 UTC-8
Candrāsta (Moonset)10:39 UTC-8
Dinamāna (Day Duration)13 Hours 32 Mins 36 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)10 Hours 27 Mins 24 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta03:38 – 04:32
Prātaḥ Sandhyā04:18 – 05:26
Abhijit Muhūrta11:45 – 12:39
Vijaya Muhūrta14:28 – 15:22
Godhūli Muhūrta18:47 – 19:11
Sāyāhna Sandhyā18:59 – 19:32
Amṛta Kāla18:44 – 20:29
Niśīta Muhūrta23:45 – 00:39

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla10:31 – 12:12
Yamaganda15:35 – 17:17
Gulika Kāla07:08 – 08:49
Varjyam06:00 – 06:22
Dur Muhūrta 08:36 – 09:03

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

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

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

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

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Chala05:26 – 07:08 (neutral)
Day-2 Labha07:08 – 08:49 (auspicious)
Day-3 Amṛta08:49 – 10:31 (auspicious)
Day-4 Kāla10:31 – 12:12 (inauspicious)
Day-5 Śubha12:12 – 13:54 (auspicious)
Day-6 Roga13:54 – 15:35 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Udveg15:35 – 17:17 (inauspicious)
Day-8 Chala17:17 – 18:59 (neutral)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Roga18:59 – 20:17 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Udveg20:17 – 21:35 (inauspicious)
Night-3 Chala21:35 – 22:54 (neutral)
Night-4 Labha22:54 – 00:12 (auspicious)
Night-5 Amṛta00:12 – 01:31 (auspicious)
Night-6 Kāla01:31 – 02:49 (inauspicious)
Night-7 Śubha02:49 – 04:08 (auspicious)
Night-8 Roga04:08 – 05:26 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 49.2827°
Longitude: -123.1207°
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 Pañcamī + Aśvinī alignment also occurred on:
-3101-02-18Kali Yuga Epoch (same Aśvinī)

🌌 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 Year5120 · Kali-5120
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1869896.27 · 5119.6 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2458361.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)24.1137° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)234.79° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 20/30)
🪷 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 (24.1137°) · declination 8.71° · EoT 0.15 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:2018-08-31 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)