Festivals & Panchang

Yoga and Karaṇa: The Two Panchāṅga Limbs Nobody Explains

The nitya yoga is the only panchāṅga limb built from a sum of longitudes, and the karaṇa is half a tithi. Here is how both are computed and

Rāhu Kāla is one eighth of the time from sunrise to sunset, so it moves with your city and the season. The fixed ninety minute table is an a

Abhijit is the eighth of fifteen daylight divisions, it moves with your longitude, and it is specifically excepted on Wednesdays.

A tithi is 12 degrees of Moon-Sun separation, so it stretches and compresses. That is why two panchangas can disagree about a festival date.

Look up Ekadashi 2027 on two different sites and you will likely find one date a day apart from the other, at least twice in the year. That…

Karva Chauth 2027 falls on Tuesday, 19 October. The vrat closes at moonrise, a local event, so one national time cannot be right for everyon

Hanuman Jayanti 2027 falls on 20 April in the Chaitra Pūrṇimā reckoning. Here is why other regions keep a different day and why both are leg

Guru Purnima 2027 falls on 18 July, the Āṣāḍha full moon. Here is how that date is fixed, and why the month matters more than the day.

Chhath runs four days with different rules on each. Most calendars publish only the evening arghya date. Here is the structure and the verif

Panchang literally means five limbs. Most people know tithi and vara without realizing there are three more, and each one is tracking someth

Diwali 2027 falls on October 27 into October 28. The lamp-lit main night most people picture is one part of a five-day sequence, each day ca

Dussehra (Vijayadashami) 2027 falls on Saturday, October 9, with Vijay Muhurat from 2:05 PM to 2:52 PM (Bengal's Vijayadashami falls a day l