Pañcāṅga · daily almanac
Panchang — Wednesday, 26 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.
2025-03-26 · Ayanāṃśa 24.2096° (Lahiri) · sidereal
tithi · Lunar Day
Dwadashi
krishna pakṣa
nakshatra · Lunar Mansion
yoga · Sun–Moon Yoga
Siddha
karana · Half-Tithi
Kaulava
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
11.64° Meena
Chandra
28.10° Makara
Mangala
27.62° Mithuna
Budha
8.93° Meena
Guru
20.91° Vrishabha
Shukra
6.44° Meena
Shani
29.59° Kumbha
Rahu
2.83° Meena
Ketu
2.83° 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 →