Pañcāṅga · daily almanac
Panchang — Monday, 25 April 2022
The five limbs of the day, computed from the real sky (sidereal, Lahiri ayanāṃśa, IST), beside what the Purāṇas actually say. Astronomy and cited scripture; never a forecast.
2022-04-25 · Ayanāṃśa 24.1688° (Lahiri) · sidereal
tithi · Lunar Day
Dashami
krishna pakṣa
nakshatra · Lunar Mansion
yoga · Sun–Moon Yoga
Shukla
karana · Half-Tithi
Vanija
vara · Weekday
Somavara
What Dhanishtha is said to favour
a moving day: go, travel, begin, change the room you are inDhanishtha is the five movable asterisms; the chapter commends journeys in them — Agni Purāṇa 126.11–16
Where the grahas stood
Surya
10.87° Mesha
Chandra
3.71° Kumbha
Mangala
13.50° Kumbha
Budha
0.64° Vrishabha
Guru
2.61° Meena
Shukra
27.44° Kumbha
Shani
29.77° Makara
Rahu
29.31° Mesha
Ketu
29.31° Tula
Sidereal longitudes (Lahiri ayanāṃśa) computed for this date from the JPL ephemeris — the same numbers every other reading here is built on.
What the texts say of Dhanishtha
brāhmaścaivābhijitproktaḥ śravaṇā vaiṣṇavaḥ smṛtaḥ । garp_1,59.7 । vāsavastu tathā ṛkṣaṃ dhaniṣṭhā procyate budhaiḥ ॥
vāsavastu tathā ṛkṣaṃ dhaniṣṭhā procyate budhaiḥ । tathā śatabhiṣā proktaṃ nakṣatraṃ vāruṇaṃ śiva । garp_1,59.8 ॥
Dhanishtha nakṣatra — devatā, lord, and every cited source →