2 September 2010
Guruvar
Krishna Janmashtami
Born at midnight, in a prison, to parents who could not keep him. The tradition puts its most joyful figure's birth in the least joyful place on purpose.
The actStay awake past midnight if you can, and sing. Feed children who are not yours.
Matched in Bhadrapada, 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
28 ghati and 46 pala have passed since sunrise.
The 15th muhurta of thirty is running.
The 4th prahara of eight.
The sun is in Dakshinayana — the southward half, the sun withdrawing.
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.