19 October 1959
The portal of Calendar
Today's three riddles
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Somvar
Karva Chauth
The fourth day of the waning Moon in Kartika: a day of love kept from before dawn until the Moon rises, with Gauri and Ganesha worshipped at dusk and the karva, a clay pot of water, passed from hand to hand.
The actWait for the Moon tonight with someone you love, and tell them one thing about them you are grateful for.
Matched in Kartika, by the purnimanta reckoning. A krishna-paksha day carries two month names — purnimanta runs a month ahead of amanta — so each festival is matched by the reckoning its own name uses. This is shown so you can check it.
The sky over this day
This moment
0 ghati and 34 pala have passed since sunrise.
The 1st muhurta of thirty is running.
The 1st prahara of eight.
The sun is in Dakshinayana — the southward half, the sun withdrawing.
Kali Yuga, year 5060.
Of this kalpa, 1,97,29,49,060 years have passed.
out of 4,32,00,00,000 · 45.67%
A ghati here is a fixed twenty-four minutes — one sixtieth of a mean day, which is what the ladder below defines. The other tradition divides the actual daylight into its own proportional parts, and that is what the muhurta page computes for Brahma and Abhijit. Two conventions, both true, and VEDAUM will not quietly mix them.
Time, as Sanatan measured it →A guide to the rhythm of the year, not a replacement for your family's own panchang. Where a tithi spans two sunrises, regional convention decides which day keeps the festival, and VEDAUM shows the day its own reckoning gives.