24 September 2014
Budhvar
Pitru Paksha
Day 15 of 15A fortnight for the ancestors — tarpana, and the remembering of those who made you possible. Not mourning; maintenance of a line.
The actOffer water with their names said aloud. Feed someone. Then say one true thing about them, including the difficult part.
Matched in Ashvina, 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.
Amavasya
The new moon. The month's lowest point and the day given to the ancestors.
The actOffer water to the pitris with their names said aloud. Rest. Begin nothing; the tradition asks for silence here rather than effort.
Matched in Bhadrapada. 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
28 ghati and 18 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 5115.
Of this kalpa, 1,97,29,49,115 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.