Pañcāṅga · daily almanac
Panchang — Wednesday, 5 March 2025
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.
2025-03-05 · Ayanāṃśa 24.2088° (Lahiri) · sidereal
tithi · Lunar Day
Shashthi
shukla pakṣa
nakshatra · Lunar Mansion
yoga · Sun–Moon Yoga
Vaidhriti
karana · Half-Tithi
Taitila
vara · Weekday
Budhavara
What Krittika is said to favour
a sharp day: good for the difficult thing, poor for the delicate oneKrittika is listed among the sharp asterisms; the chapter reserves them for hard, cutting work — Agni Purāṇa 126.11–16
Suited to what the chapter gives this face: the chapter gives it digging, foundations, medicine, teaching.Krittika is downward-faced — Agni Purāṇa 126.17–28
Where the grahas stood
Surya
20.72° Kumbha
Chandra
2.25° Vrishabha
Mangala
23.31° Mithuna
Budha
8.43° Meena
Guru
18.43° Vrishabha
Shukra
16.41° Meena
Shani
27.00° Kumbha
Rahu
3.94° Meena
Ketu
3.94° 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 Krittika
vyādhyagnicauraśastrāstrabhayadaḥ prāṇināṃ bhavet / anāvṛṣṭiṃ bhūmnanibhaḥ karoti surapūjitaḥ // narp_1,56.58 // divādṛṣṭo nṛpavadhyāmayaṃvārāṣṭranāśanam / saṃvatsaraśarīraṃ syātkṛttikā rohiṇī tathā // narp_1,56.59 // nābhistvāpāṭhayugalamādrī hṛtkusumaṃ maghā /
saṃvatsaraśarīraṃ syātkṛttikā rohiṇī tathā // narp_1,56.59 // nābhistvāpāṭhayugalamādrī hṛtkusumaṃ maghā / durbhikṣāgnimarudbhītiḥ śarīraṃ krūrapīḍite // narp_1,56.60 // nābhyāṃ kṣuttṛṅbhayaṃ puṣye samyaṅmūlaphalakṣayaḥ / hṛdayeśasya nidhanaṃ śubhaṃ syātsaṃyutaiḥ śubhaiḥ // narp_1,56.61 //