पञ्चाङ्ग · April 21, 1858 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 18.20 · Chapter 18 · मोक्षसंन्यासयोग · Mokṣa-Sannyāsa-Yoga
सर्वभूतेषु येनैकं भावमव्ययमीक्षते।अविभक्तं विभक्तेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि सात्त्विकम्।।18.20।।
"18.20 That knowledge which sees the One Indestructible in all beings, the One Indivisible in all separate lives, may be truly called Pure Knowledge." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 18.20's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Vaiśākha (Vaiśākha Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 1915 Prajāpati
Śaka Saṁvat: 1780 Kālayukta
Bengali Saṁvat: 1265
Malayalam Era: 1034
Nanakshahi: 389
Solar Month: Mēsha (Cittirai / Vaiśākhī)
Ṛtu (Season): Vasanta (Spring)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Aṣṭamī (8/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Puṣya Pada 3
योग (Yoga)Śūla
करण (Karaṇa)Bava
वार (Vāra)Budhavāra (Wednesday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya8.76°MeṣaAśvinī P3
चन्द्र Candra104.40°KarkaPuṣya P4
मङ्गल Maṅgala221.52°VṛścikaAnurādhā P3
बुध Budha30.86°VṛṣabhaKṛttikā P2
गुरु Bṛhaspati31.33°VṛṣabhaKṛttikā P2
शुक्र Śukra23.75°MeṣaBharaṇī P4
शनि Śani91.42°KarkaPunarvasu P4

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

6 steps · graha walk
Budhavāra (Wednesday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Discrimination + BG 2.41 (vyavasāyātmikā buddhi).

🌌 Cosmic-Historical Resonance

Today's Śukla Aṣṭamī + Puṣya alignment also occurred on:
-3137-12-25Bhīṣma's Mahaprasthan (same Śukla Aṣṭamī)

🌌 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 Year4960 · Kali-4960
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1811325.27 · 4959.2 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2399790.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)21.8736° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)93.38° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 8/30)
🪷 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:1858-04-21 (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/1858-04-21/06-30/26.2389,73.0243?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*.