10 July 2013
Budhvar
Rath Yatra
The deity leaves the temple and comes into the street — the one festival built entirely on the idea that the divine does not stay where it is kept.
The actTake something you keep private — a skill, a kindness — out into public use today.
Matched in Ashadha. Both reckonings name this month alike, so there is nothing to choose between them here. 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
29 ghati and 58 pala have passed since sunrise.
The 15th muhurta of thirty is running.
The 4th prahara of eight.
The sun is in Uttarayana — the northward half, the sun climbing.
Kali Yuga, year 5114.
Of this kalpa, 1,97,29,49,114 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.