पञ्चाङ्ग · October 4, 1996 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
🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 1.40 · Chapter 1 · अर्जुनविषादयोग · Arjuna-Viṣāda-Yoga
कुलक्षये प्रणश्यन्ति कुलधर्माः सनातनाः।

धर्मे नष्टे कुलं कृत्स्नमधर्मोऽभिभवत्युत।।1.40।।
"1.40 The destruction of our kindred means the destruction of the traditions of our ancient lineage, and when these are lost, irreligion will overrun our homes." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 1.40's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Āśvina (Āśvina Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2053 Virodhi
Śaka Saṁvat: 1918 Dhātṛ
Bengali Saṁvat: 1403
Malayalam Era: 1172
Nanakshahi: 527
Solar Month: Kanyā (Puraṭṭāsi)
Ṛtu (Season): Śarad (Autumn)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī (23/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Ārdrā Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Varīyān
करण (Karaṇa)Bālava
वार (Vāra)Śukravāra (Friday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya167.29°KanyāHasta P3
चन्द्र Candra72.24°MithunaĀrdrā P2
मङ्गल Maṅgala111.06°KarkaAśleṣā P2
बुध Budha149.56°SiṃhaUttara Phalgunī P1
गुरु Bṛhaspati255.51°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P1
शुक्र Śukra126.15°SiṃhaMaghā P2
शनि Śani339.55°MīnaUttara Bhādrapadā P2

🚶 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-Historical Resonance

Today's Kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī + Ārdrā alignment also occurred on:
-3226-07-09Bhagavān Krishna's birth at Mathurā (same Kṛṣṇa 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 Year5098 · Kali-5098
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1861895.27 · 5097.7 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2450360.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.8077° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)264.28° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 23/30)
🪷 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:1996-10-04 (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/1996-10-04/06-30/26.2389,73.0243?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*.