Pañcāṅga · daily almanac
Panchang — Wednesday, 26 June 2024
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.
2024-06-26 · Ayanāṃśa 24.1991° (Lahiri) · sidereal
tithi · Lunar Day
Panchami
krishna pakṣa
nakshatra · Lunar Mansion
yoga · Sun–Moon Yoga
Priti
karana · Half-Tithi
Taitila
vara · Weekday
Budhavara
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
10.95° Mithuna
Chandra
6.02° Kumbha
Mangala
18.35° Mesha
Budha
24.28° Mithuna
Guru
12.98° Vrishabha
Shukra
16.87° Mithuna
Shani
25.22° Kumbha
Rahu
17.29° Meena
Ketu
17.29° Kanya
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 →