Panchanga
The panchanga is the five-limbed reckoning of a day by which muhurta (electional) work is done: tithi (the lunar day), vara (the weekday), nakshatra (the Moon's asterism), nitya yoga (the Sun-Moon combination) and karana (the half-tithi).
Two of the five limbs are owned elsewhere in the corpus and are referenced rather than restated here: the nakshatra limb is nakshatras.json's, and the vara limb is weekdays.json's. The tithi, the nitya yoga and the karana have entries of their own in this file, and the fifteen waxing tithis are catalogued individually as panchanga_tithi entries. The panchanga is the layer in which Jyotish becomes an everyday practice rather than a natal one, and it is the reason the corpus keeps electional and natal material apart.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Pancangathe almanacthe five limbs
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Concept
- Sanskrit
- पंचाङ्ग
- English
- the five-limbed calendar of the day
- Meaning
The panchanga is the five-limbed reckoning of a day by which muhurta (electional) work is done: tithi (the lunar day), vara (the weekday), nakshatra (the Moon's asterism), nitya yoga (the Sun-Moon combination) and karana (the half-tithi). A panchanga is also the almanac that prints these five for every day of the year, and the word means 'five limbs' for that reason.
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