17 July 2011
Ravivar
Karka Sankranti
The Sun turns south and Dakshinayana opens — the inward half of the year. The tradition treats these months as the time for practice rather than enterprise, and the monsoon enforces it.
The actBegin one inward practice you will keep until Makar Sankranti. Say it out loud to one person so it is real.
Matched by the Sun's entry into Karka, not by a lunar month. Regional almanacs may place the observance a day either side.
The sky over this day
This moment
29 ghati and 49 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 5112.
Of this kalpa, 1,97,29,49,112 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.