पञ्चाङ्ग · February 21, 1974 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 supported city records worldwide · ?format=json
🪷 आज: महा शिवरात्रि — Mahā Śivarātri
The greatest night of Lord Śiva; cosmic dance of dissolution.

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 4.29 · Chapter 4 · ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोग · Jñāna-Karma-Sannyāsa-Yoga
अपाने जुह्वति प्राण प्राणेऽपानं तथाऽपरे।

प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः।।4.29।।
"4.29 There are some who practise control of the Vital Energy and govern the subtle forces of Prana and Apana, thereby sacrificing their Prana unto Apana, or their Apana unto Prana." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 4.29's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Phālguna (Phālguna Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2031 Prabhava
Śaka Saṁvat: 1896 Ānanda
Bengali Saṁvat: 1381
Malayalam Era: 1150
Nanakshahi: 505
Solar Month: Kumbha (Māsi)
Ṛtu (Season): Śiśira (Winter)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Caturdaśī (29/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Dhaniṣṭhā Pada 1
योग (Yoga)Parigha
करण (Karaṇa)Śakuni
वार (Vāra)Guruvāra (Thursday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya308.53°KumbhaŚatabhiṣā P1
चन्द्र Candra295.23°MakaraDhaniṣṭhā P1
मङ्गल Maṅgala33.40°VṛṣabhaKṛttikā P3
बुध Budha316.52°KumbhaŚatabhiṣā P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati303.13°KumbhaDhaniṣṭhā P3
शुक्र Śukra273.68°MakaraUttara Āṣāḍhā P3
शनि Śani64.54°MithunaMr̥gaśirā P4

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

12 steps · festival walk
Today is Mahā Śivarātri — its dedicated walk.
Śiva-stuti through Bhāgavata + Mahābhārata Anuśāsana.

🌌 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 Year5075 · Kali-5075
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1853634.27 · 5075.1 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2442099.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.4918° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)346.24° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 29/30)
🪷 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:1974-02-21 (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/1974-02-21/06-30/26.2389,73.0243?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*.