20 June 2010
Ravivar
No festival is marked on this day. It is an ordinary day — which is most of a life, and not a lesser thing.
The sky over this day
This moment
30 ghati and 15 pala have passed since sunrise.
The 16th muhurta of thirty is running.
The 5th prahara of eight.
The sun is in Uttarayana — the northward half, the sun climbing.
Kali Yuga, year 5111.
Of this kalpa, 1,97,29,49,111 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.