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Śukla Ṣaṣṭhī
6/30 · Śukla pakṣa
Nakshatra
Dhaniṣṭhā
Pada 4 · 23/27
Karaṇa
Kaulava
half-tithi 10/60
Vāra
Guruvāra (Thursday)
weekday limb
Calendar context: Mārgaśīrṣa (Mārgaśīrṣa Śukla Pakṣa) · Solar month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)
Localized descent for Vārāṇasī (Kāśī); the universal day-axis remains anchored to the same date envelope.
🪷 आज: स्कन्द षष्ठी — Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī
Kārttikeya's victory over Tāraka. Important Shaiva day in Tamil tradition.
📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions Lunar Month: Mārgaśīrṣa (Mārgaśīrṣa Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2085 Durmati
Śaka Saṁvat: 1950 Kīlaka
Bengali Saṁvat: 1435
Malayalam Era: 1204
Nanakshahi: 559
Solar Month: Dhanus (Mārgaḻi)
Ṛtu (Season): Hemanta (Pre-winter)
🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements) तिथि (Tithi) Śukla Ṣaṣṭhī (6/30)नक्षत्र (Nakshatra) Dhaniṣṭhā Pada 4योग (Yoga) Vajra करण (Karaṇa) Kaulava वार (Vāra) Guruvāra (Thursday)
🕉️ 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 16.19 · Chapter 16 ·
दैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोग · Daivāsura-Sampad-Vibhāga-Yoga
तानहं द्विषतः क्रूरान्संसारेषु नराधमान्।क्षिपाम्यजस्रमशुभानासुरीष्वेव योनिषु।।16.19।।
"16.19 Those who thus hate Me, who are cruel, the dregs of mankind, I condemn them to a continuous, miserable and godless rebirth." — Shri Purohit Swami
🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri) Graha Longitude Rāśi Nakshatra सूर्य Sūrya 245.43° Dhanu Mūla P2चन्द्र Candra 304.10° Kumbha Dhaniṣṭhā P4मङ्गल Maṅgala 155.11° Kanyā Uttara Phalgunī P3बुध Budha 261.72° Dhanu Pūrva Āṣāḍhā P3गुरु Bṛhaspati 179.24° Kanyā Citrā P2शुक्र Śukra 222.71° Vṛścika Anurādhā P3शनि Śani 10.34° Meṣa Aśvinī P4
☀️ Vārāṇasī (Kāśī) — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · IST) Sūryodaya (Sunrise) 06:40 IST Sūryāsta (Sunset) 17:13 IST Madhyāhna (Solar Noon) 11:57 IST Candrodaya (Moonrise) 10:12 IST Candrāsta (Moonset) 21:31 IST Dinamāna (Day Duration) 10 Hours 33 Mins 31 Secs Rātrimāna (Night Duration) 13 Hours 26 Mins 29 Secs
✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings Brahma Muhūrta 05:15 – 05:58 Prātaḥ Sandhyā 05:47 – 06:40 Abhijit Muhūrta 11:36 – 12:18 Vijaya Muhūrta 13:42 – 14:25 Godhūli Muhūrta 17:01 – 17:25 Sāyāhna Sandhyā 17:13 – 17:40 Amṛta Kāla 16:58 – 18:43 Niśīta Muhūrta 23:36 – 00:18
⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid) Rāhu Kāla 13:16 – 14:35 Yamaganda 06:40 – 07:59 Gulika Kāla 09:18 – 10:38 Varjyam 07:06 – 07:23 Dur Muhūrta 09:08 – 09:29
🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): South (Dakṣiṇa)
Candra Vāsa: South
Rāhu Vāsa: North-West
Ānandādi Yoga: Chatra (Auspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Vedic Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter)
Tropical Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana
Vedic Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana
⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala Favorable Nakshatras (Tara Bala, 15/27): Aśvinī · Ārdrā · Punarvasu · Puṣya · Aśleṣā · Maghā · Svātī · Viśākhā · Anurādhā · Jyeṣṭhā · Mūla · Śatabhiṣaj · Pūrva Bhādrapadā · Uttara Bhādrapadā · Revatī
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12): Meṣa · Karka · Siṃha · Vṛścika · Dhanu · Kumbha
🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows Day-1 Śubha 06:40 – 07:59 (auspicious) Day-2 Roga 07:59 – 09:18 (inauspicious) Day-3 Udveg 09:18 – 10:38 (inauspicious) Day-4 Chala 10:38 – 11:57 (neutral) Day-5 Labha 11:57 – 13:16 (auspicious) Day-6 Amṛta 13:16 – 14:35 (auspicious) Day-7 Kāla 14:35 – 15:54 (inauspicious) Day-8 Śubha 15:54 – 17:13 (auspicious)
Choghaḍiyā Night Windows Night-1 Amṛta 17:13 – 18:54 (auspicious) Night-2 Kāla 18:54 – 20:35 (inauspicious) Night-3 Śubha 20:35 – 22:16 (auspicious) Night-4 Roga 22:16 – 23:57 (inauspicious) Night-5 Udveg 23:57 – 01:38 (inauspicious) Night-6 Chala 01:38 – 03:18 (neutral) Night-7 Labha 03:18 – 04:59 (auspicious) Night-8 Amṛta 04:59 – 06:40 (auspicious)
🌐 Coordinates Latitude: 25.3176°
Longitude: 82.9739°
Timezone: UTC+5.5
🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk 8 steps · graha walkDedicated festival walk for Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī is not live yet; Guruvāra (Thursday) — its presiding graha's walk.
🌌 Cosmic Time — Where This Moment Sits in the Mahāyuga These five values locate the requested date inside this application's declared proleptic model. Kali Year uses 18 February 3102 BCE as a traditional epoch convention; that convention is not proof of Krishna's historical departure date. Ahargaṇa is this model's day-count from that epoch. Julian Day is a continuous astronomical day-number. Ayanāṁśa is the modelled sidereal/tropical angular offset. Sun-Moon angle determines the computed tithi (0-360° elongation / 12° per tithi).
Kali Year 5130 · Kali-5130 Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch) 1873661.27 · 5129.9 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight Julian Day 2462126.770833 · universal astronomical day-count Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri) 24.2577° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr Sun-Moon angle (elongation) 60.18° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 6/30)
🪷 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 (24.2577°) · declination -23.44° · EoT 1.38 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: 2028-12-21 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled) Sources and Related Local Readings Continue from the complete Vārāṇasī (Kāśī) reading for 2028-12-21 to the universal day, local muhūrta, choghaḍiyā, hora, machine-readable data, Jyotiṣa references, dharmic timing applications, and the surrender boundary.
Vārāṇasī (Kāśī) city route page-local city darśana, LMT, closed-science sun-times, and local kṣetra orientation /cities master Bhūmi city-access source pathway and full Earth search doorway city search API machine doorway for resolving the same city slug from the shipped city corpus Vārāṇasī (Kāśī) city-day city-localized pañchāṅga descent for this date and kṣetra Vārāṇasī (Kāśī) muhūrta Rāhu-kālam, Yamagaṇḍa, Gulika, Abhijit, Brahma, and day-muhūrta companion route Vārāṇasī (Kāśī) choghaḍiyā day and night choghaḍiyā companion route for local action windows Vārāṇasī (Kāśī) hora 24-hour graha-rulership companion route for local hora selection Vārāṇasī (Kāśī) complete pañchāṅga complete localized pañchāṅga route with muhūrta, choghaḍiyā, multi-ayanāṁśa, and local source pathway universal day pathway 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 pathway 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