पञ्चाङ्ग — Washington DC, USA · November 27, 2012 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: वृश्चिक सङ्क्रान्ति — Vṛścika Saṅkrānti
Sun enters Scorpio.
🪷 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: Mārgaśīrṣa (Mārgaśīrṣa Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2069 Viśvāvasu
Śaka Saṁvat: 1934 Nandana
Bengali Saṁvat: 1419
Malayalam Era: 1188
Nanakshahi: 543
Solar Month: Vṛścika (Kārttikai)
Ṛtu (Season): Hemanta (Pre-winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Caturdaśī (14/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Bharaṇī Pada 4
योग (Yoga)Parigha
करण (Karaṇa)Vaṇija
वार (Vāra)Maṅgalavāra (Tuesday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya221.16°VṛścikaAnurādhā P3
चन्द्र Candra24.19°MeṣaBharaṇī P4
मङ्गल Maṅgala253.39°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P1
बुध Budha203.90°TulāViśākhā P2
गुरु Bṛhaspati47.70°VṛṣabhaRohiṇī P3
शुक्र Śukra191.97°TulāSvātī P2
शनि Śani191.88°TulāSvātī P2

☀️ Washington DC, USA — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · UTC-5)

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)07:05 UTC-5
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:49 UTC-5
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:57 UTC-5
Candrodaya (Moonrise)15:47 UTC-5
Candrāsta (Moonset)05:50 UTC-5
Dinamāna (Day Duration)9 Hours 43 Mins 58 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)14 Hours 16 Mins 02 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta05:47 – 06:26
Prātaḥ Sandhyā06:16 – 07:05
Abhijit Muhūrta11:37 – 12:16
Vijaya Muhūrta13:34 – 14:13
Godhūli Muhūrta16:37 – 17:01
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:49 – 17:13
Amṛta Kāla16:34 – 18:19
Niśīta Muhūrta23:37 – 00:16

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla14:23 – 15:36
Yamaganda09:31 – 10:44
Gulika Kāla11:57 – 13:10
Varjyam07:29 – 07:44
Dur Muhūrta 09:21 – 09:40

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): North (Uttara)
Candra Vāsa: East
Rāhu Vāsa: North
Ānandādi Yoga: Mudgara (Inauspicious)
Drik Ṛtu: Hemanta (Pre-winter) (Drik)
Vedic Ṛtu: Śarad (Autumn)
Drik 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):
Meṣa · Mithuna · Kanyā · Tulā · Makara · Kumbha

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Roga07:05 – 08:18 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Udveg08:18 – 09:31 (inauspicious)
Day-3 Chala09:31 – 10:44 (neutral)
Day-4 Labha10:44 – 11:57 (auspicious)
Day-5 Amṛta11:57 – 13:10 (auspicious)
Day-6 Kāla13:10 – 14:23 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Śubha14:23 – 15:36 (auspicious)
Day-8 Roga15:36 – 16:49 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Kāla16:49 – 18:36 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Śubha18:36 – 20:23 (auspicious)
Night-3 Roga20:23 – 22:10 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Udveg22:10 – 23:57 (inauspicious)
Night-5 Chala23:57 – 01:44 (neutral)
Night-6 Labha01:44 – 03:31 (auspicious)
Night-7 Amṛta03:31 – 05:18 (auspicious)
Night-8 Kāla05:18 – 07:05 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 38.9072°
Longitude: -77.0369°
Timezone: UTC+-5

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

7 steps · graha walk
Maṅgalavāra (Tuesday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Right action + BG 2.31-38 (kṣatriya-dharma).

🌌 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 Year5114 · Kali-5114
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1867793.27 · 5113.8 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2456258.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)24.0333° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)162.79° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 14/30)
🪷 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 (24.0333°) · declination -21.16° · EoT 11.57 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:2012-11-27 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)