पञ्चाङ्ग · September 17, 2020 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: महालय अमावस्या — Mahālaya Amāvasyā (Sarvapitṛ Amāvasyā)
Final day of Pitṛ-Pakṣa; tarpaṇa for all ancestors.

Also observed today

🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 10.5 · Chapter 10 · विभूतियोग · Vibhūti-Yoga
अहिंसा समता तुष्टिस्तपो दानं यशोऽयशः।

भवन्ति भावा भूतानां मत्त एव पृथग्विधाः।।10.5।।
"10.5 Harmlessness, equanimity, contentment, austerity, beneficence, fame and failure, all these, the characteristics of beings, spring from Me only." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 10.5's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Āśvina (Āśvina Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2077 Pramādī
Śaka Saṁvat: 1942 Śārvarī
Bengali Saṁvat: 1427
Malayalam Era: 1196
Nanakshahi: 551
Solar Month: Kanyā (Puraṭṭāsi)
Ṛtu (Season): Śarad (Autumn)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Amāvasyā (30/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Pūrva Phalgunī Pada 3
योग (Yoga)Sādhya
करण (Karaṇa)Catuṣpāda
वार (Vāra)Guruvāra (Thursday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya150.48°KanyāUttara Phalgunī P2
चन्द्र Candra144.62°SiṃhaPūrva Phalgunī P4
मङ्गल Maṅgala3.22°MeṣaAśvinī P1
बुध Budha172.41°KanyāHasta P4
गुरु Bṛhaspati263.29°DhanuPūrva Āṣāḍhā P3
शुक्र Śukra107.44°KarkaAśleṣā P1
शनि Śani271.30°MakaraUttara Āṣāḍhā P2

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

8 steps · graha walk
Guruvāra (Thursday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Wisdom transmission + BG 4.34.

🌌 Cosmic-Historical Resonance

Today's Kṛṣṇa Amāvasyā + Pūrva Phalgunī alignment also occurred on:
-3137-10-20Karṇa-Vadha (Mahābhārata Day 17) (same Kṛṣṇa Amāvasyā)

🌌 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 Year5122 · Kali-5122
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1870644.27 · 5121.7 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2459109.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)24.1423° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)353.38° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 30/30)
🪷 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:2020-09-17 (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 ❤️
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🪷 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*.