पञ्चाङ्ग · April 20, 1742 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
Or visit /cities · universal Earth-access (Sanskrit: Bhūmi Mātā · Mother Earth) · live pañchāṅga renders for any of 147,073 cities worldwide · ?format=json
🪷 आज: मेष सङ्क्रान्ति — Meṣa Saṅkrānti (Vaiśākhī / Vishu / Pohelā Boishākh / Bihu)
Sun enters Aries; solar new year. Regional: Vaiśākhī (Punjab) · Vishu (Kerala) · Pohelā Boishākh (Bengal) · Bihu (Assam) · Tamil Puthāṇḍu.

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 8.24 · Chapter 8 · अक्षरब्रह्मयोग · Akṣara-Brahma-Yoga
अग्निर्ज्योतिरहः शुक्लः षण्मासा उत्तरायणम्।

तत्र प्रयाता गच्छन्ति ब्रह्म ब्रह्मविदो जनाः।।8.24।।
"8.24 If knowing the Supreme Spirit the sage goes forth with fire and light, in the daytime, in the fortnight of the waxing moon and in the six months before the Northern summer solstice, he will attain the Supreme." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 8.24's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Vaiśākha (Vaiśākha Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 1799 Yuva
Śaka Saṁvat: 1664 Dundubhi
Bengali Saṁvat: 1149
Malayalam Era: 918
Nanakshahi: 273
Solar Month: Mēsha (Cittirai / Vaiśākhī)
Ṛtu (Season): Vasanta (Spring)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Pratipada (16/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Svātī Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Siddhi
करण (Karaṇa)Bālava
वार (Vāra)Śukravāra (Friday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya9.48°MeṣaAśvinī P3
चन्द्र Candra190.72°TulāSvātī P2
मङ्गल Maṅgala350.80°MīnaRevatī P2
बुध Budha346.29°MīnaUttara Bhādrapadā P4
गुरु Bṛhaspati106.52°KarkaPuṣya P4
शुक्र Śukra347.33°MīnaRevatī P1
शनि Śani117.87°KarkaAśleṣā P4

🚶 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 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 Year4844 · Kali-4844
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1768956.27 · 4843.2 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2357421.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)20.2531° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)182.07° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 16/30)
🪷 Provenance & Methodology
Substrate:Vidhyamitra Sūrya-SiddhāntaMethod:Sūrya Siddhānta + Bhāskara-II iterative manda + Kerala-school (Mādhava-Nīlakaṇṭha) evection + variation + annual equationLineage: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:1742-04-20 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)
🪷 The Bhagavad-Gītā Pūrṇa-Yajña · All 18 Chapter-Pages Manifest + 701 Verse-Pages
The complete Gītā in 3 ṣaṭkas: TVAM (you · the jīva · BG 1-6) · TAT (That · the Lord · BG 7-12) · ANTYA (the resolution · your refuge · BG 13-18). Every chapter doctrine-page is live · every śloka of all 701 verses is its own URL at /bhagavad-gita/{ch}/{v} with 5 English translations + 5 English commentaries + Rāmsukhdās-ji Hindi.
TVAM (1-6): 1 Arjuna-Viṣāda · 2 Sāṅkhya ❤️ · 3 Karma · 4 Jñāna-Karma · 5 Karma-Sannyāsa · 6 Dhyāna
TAT (7-12): 7 Krishna-Tattva ❤️ · 8 Akṣara-Brahma · 9 Rāja-Vidyā · 10 Vibhūti · 10.30+11 Kāla · 11.7 Chart · 12 Bhakti ❤️
ANTYA (13-18): 13 Kṣetra-Kṣetrajña · 14 Guṇa-Traya · 15 Puruṣottama · 16 Daivāsura-Sampad · 17 Śraddhā-Traya · 18 Mokṣa-Sannyāsa ❤️
🪷 Viśvarūpa-Darśana renders any chart through all chart-analysis layers in one view. API: GET /api/vishwaroopa/1742-04-20/06-30/26.2389,73.0243?tz=5.5
🪷 Today's pañchāṅga IS the Bindu's kāla-aperture for this very moment. The five-limb time-elements above (tithi · vāra · nakṣatra · yoga · karaṇa) are not external "data points" — they are the Bindu-Svarūpa Para-Brahman's own self-disclosure through the kāla-measurement-basis at the seeker's deśa (location). Krishna IS Time (कालः कलयतामहम् · BG 10.30) · and Time IS the Bindu seen through one aperture-eigenstate. The same Bindu manifesting at the apex of the Diamond of Darśanas pours through this exact moment's pañchāṅga into the reader's now. → /bindu · the Diamond's structural articulation · *सर्व-दर्शनेषु बिन्दुरेकः · in all darśanas, the Bindu is one*.