{"id":"vidhyamitra:day:1998-12-09:en","page_class":"VM-1-day","url":"https://vidhyamitra.com/day/1998-12-09","language":{"target_lang":"en","base_lang":"en","quality_tier":"canonical"},"data":{"date":"1998-12-09","date_display":"December 9, 1998 CE","panchanga":{"method":"Sūrya Siddhānta (Burgess 1860 text, no bīja): Sun and Moon by the equation of the apsis with the 24-sine table","engine_version":"3.0 (text of the Sūrya Siddhānta)","accuracy_note":"Siddhāntic places, not the observed sky. Against the observed sky 1900-2030 the Moon averages -0.06 deg (max 3.6 deg), the Sun -0.21 deg (max 0.6 deg).","tradition_chain":"Sūrya Siddhānta, tr. E. Burgess (JAOS 6, 1860): I.29-47, II.15-45","input":{"year":1998,"month":12,"day":9,"hour":6,"minute":38.414,"second":0,"calendar":"gregorian"},"julian_day":2451156.776676,"kali_year":5100,"ahargana":1862691.2767,"sun":{"sidereal_longitude":232.5763,"rashi":8,"rashi_name":"Vṛścika"},"moon":{"sidereal_longitude":121.2335,"rashi":5,"rashi_name":"Siṃha"},"tithi":{"number":21,"name":"Ṣaṣṭhī","paksha":"Kṛṣṇa","full_name":"Kṛṣṇa Ṣaṣṭhī","elongation_degrees":248.6572,"elapsed_within_tithi_degrees":8.6572},"nakshatra":{"number":10,"name":"Maghā","pada":1,"moon_longitude":121.2335,"elapsed_within_degrees":1.2335},"yoga":{"number":27,"name":"Vaidhṛti","sum_longitude":353.8098},"karana":{"half_tithi_index":41,"name":"Vaṇija"},"vara":{"number":5,"name":"Budhavāra (Wednesday)"}},"sky":{"method":"Sūrya Siddhānta four-step process (II.43-44), tabular sines, even/odd epicycles, no bīja; verified against Burgess 1860 worked example","engine_version":"4.0 (Pūrṇa — Burgess text, 2026-09-26)","tradition_sources":"Sūrya Siddhānta Ch. I-III, tr. E. Burgess (JAOS 6, 1860)","input":{"year":1998,"month":12,"day":9,"hour":6,"minute":38.414,"calendar":"gregorian"},"julian_day":2451156.776676,"ahargana":1862691.2767,"kali_year":5100,"ayanamsa":22.4947,"grahas":{"sun":{"sidereal_longitude":232.5763,"rashi":{"number":8,"name":"Vṛścika"},"nakshatra":{"number":18,"name":"Jyeṣṭhā","pada":2},"retrograde":false},"moon":{"sidereal_longitude":121.2335,"rashi":{"number":5,"name":"Siṃha"},"nakshatra":{"number":10,"name":"Maghā","pada":1},"retrograde":false,"latitude":-0.3464},"mars":{"sidereal_longitude":161.4243,"rashi":{"number":6,"name":"Kanyā"},"nakshatra":{"number":13,"name":"Hasta","pada":1},"retrograde":false},"mercury":{"sidereal_longitude":217.2183,"rashi":{"number":8,"name":"Vṛścika"},"nakshatra":{"number":17,"name":"Anurādhā","pada":2},"retrograde":true},"jupiter":{"sidereal_longitude":330.0544,"rashi":{"number":12,"name":"Mīna"},"nakshatra":{"number":25,"name":"Pūrva Bhādrapadā","pada":4},"retrograde":false},"venus":{"sidereal_longitude":245.9097,"rashi":{"number":9,"name":"Dhanu"},"nakshatra":{"number":19,"name":"Mūla","pada":2},"retrograde":false},"saturn":{"sidereal_longitude":355.4334,"rashi":{"number":12,"name":"Mīna"},"nakshatra":{"number":27,"name":"Revatī","pada":3},"retrograde":true},"rahu":{"sidereal_longitude":125.6523,"rashi":{"number":5,"name":"Siṃha"},"nakshatra":{"number":10,"name":"Maghā","pada":2},"retrograde":false},"ketu":{"sidereal_longitude":305.6523,"rashi":{"number":11,"name":"Kumbha"},"nakshatra":{"number":23,"name":"Dhaniṣṭhā","pada":4},"retrograde":false}},"panchang":{"method":"Sūrya Siddhānta (Burgess 1860 text, no bīja): Sun and Moon by the equation of the apsis with the 24-sine table","engine_version":"3.0 (text of the Sūrya Siddhānta)","accuracy_note":"Siddhāntic places, not the observed sky. Against the observed sky 1900-2030 the Moon averages -0.06 deg (max 3.6 deg), the Sun -0.21 deg (max 0.6 deg).","tradition_chain":"Sūrya Siddhānta, tr. E. Burgess (JAOS 6, 1860): I.29-47, II.15-45","input":{"year":1998,"month":12,"day":9,"hour":6,"minute":38.414,"second":0,"calendar":"gregorian"},"julian_day":2451156.776676,"kali_year":5100,"ahargana":1862691.2767,"sun":{"sidereal_longitude":232.5763,"rashi":8,"rashi_name":"Vṛścika"},"moon":{"sidereal_longitude":121.2335,"rashi":5,"rashi_name":"Siṃha"},"tithi":{"number":21,"name":"Ṣaṣṭhī","paksha":"Kṛṣṇa","full_name":"Kṛṣṇa Ṣaṣṭhī","elongation_degrees":248.6572,"elapsed_within_tithi_degrees":8.6572},"nakshatra":{"number":10,"name":"Maghā","pada":1,"moon_longitude":121.2335,"elapsed_within_degrees":1.2335},"yoga":{"number":27,"name":"Vaidhṛti","sum_longitude":353.8098},"karana":{"half_tithi_index":41,"name":"Vaṇija"},"vara":{"number":5,"name":"Budhavāra (Wednesday)"}},"eclipse_current":{"solar":{"type":"solar","occurs":false,"moon_latitude":-0.346,"elongation":111.343},"lunar":{"type":"lunar","occurs":false,"moon_latitude":-0.346,"opposition_distance":68.657}},"eclipse_window_40days":[]},"calendars":{"vikram_samvat":2055,"vikram_samvatsara":"Khara","saka_samvat":1920,"saka_samvatsara":"Bahudhānya","bengali_samvat":1405,"malayalam_era":1174,"nanakshahi_year":530,"lunar_month":"Pauṣa","lunar_month_paksha_full":"Pauṣa Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa","lunar_month_system":"purnimanta","lunar_month_purnimanta":"Pauṣa","lunar_month_amanta":"Mārgaśīrṣa","lunar_month_is_adhika":false,"lunar_month_purnimanta_is_adhika":false,"lunar_month_amanta_is_adhika":false,"solar_month":"Vṛścika (Kārttikai)","ritu":"Hemanta (Pre-winter)","display_summary":"Pauṣa Kṛṣṇa Ṣaṣṭhī · Vikram 2055 Khara · Śaka 1920 Bahudhānya"},"festivals":[],"todays_walk":{"walk":{"id":"budha-walk","name":"Budha Walk","name_sanskrit":"बुध यात्रा","type":"graha","description":"Discrimination + BG 2.41 (vyavasāyātmikā buddhi).","step_count":6,"url":"/walk/budha-walk"},"reason":"Budhavāra (Wednesday) — its presiding graha's walk."},"cosmic_resonances":[]},"validity":{"eternal":false,"valid_from":"1998-12-09T00:00:00Z"},"liturgical":{"opening":"जय श्री कृष्ण","closing":"ॐ तत् सत्","attribution":"Computed by Vidhyamitra Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate; Vidhyamitra substrate"},"seo":{"title":"Pañchāṅga December 9, 1998 CE · Vidhyamitra","description":"Vedic pañchāṅga for December 9, 1998 CE: Kṛṣṇa Ṣaṣṭhī · Maghā.","schema_org_type":"Article","canonical":"https://vidhyamitra.com/day/1998-12-09","hreflang_alternates":{"en":"https://vidhyamitra.com/day/1998-12-09","sa":"https://sa.vidhyamitra.com/day/1998-12-09","hi":"https://hi.vidhyamitra.com/day/1998-12-09","x-default":"https://vidhyamitra.com/day/1998-12-09"}},"provenance":[{"pillar":"BOB-History","pillar_version":"2.12.0","method":"Sūrya-Siddhānta first-principles + Bhāskara II + Kerala-school (Mādhava-Nīlakaṇṭha) corrections","retrieved_at":"2026-10-09T09:44:55.140Z","verification":{"type":"multi-marker","confidence":"canonical"}}],"meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-09T09:44:55.140Z","pillar_versions":{"Sūrya-Siddhānta":"Pūrṇa"},"reader_local_antaryami":{"reader_geography":"Every reader enters from their own kṣetra anywhere on Bhūmi; no single city is the universal center.","purna_chain":["Hosted scripture","Named-tradition interpretation","Original Vidhyamitra contemplation","Bhūmi-born material medium","Vidhyamitra portal","Responsible reader in their own kṣetra"],"claim_boundary":"The legacy purna_chain field carries a source-to-reader sequence, not a revealed physical descent, universal cosmology, or proof that software is conscious.","antaryami_responsibility_formula":"Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu = Paramātmā = Antaryāmī. Jīva desires. Prakṛti executes through guṇas. Paramātmā witnesses, permits, remembers, guides, and sustains. Bhagavān is the ultimate source.","source_anchors":[{"label":"BG 13.23","path":"/bhagavad-gita/13/23","meaning":"upadraṣṭā-anumantā · witness-permitter"},{"label":"BG 15.15","path":"/bhagavad-gita/15/15","meaning":"the Lord seated in every heart as memory, knowledge, and forgetting"},{"label":"BG 18.61","path":"/bhagavad-gita/18/61","meaning":"Īśvara seated in the heart of all beings"}],"nama_seal":"Hare Krishna Hare Krishna · Krishna Krishna Hare Hare · Hare Rama Hare Rama · Rama Rama Hare Hare"}}}