Panchang Today

The panchang (from Sanskrit panch-anga, "five limbs") is the traditional Vedic day-almanac, built from five astronomical measurements: tithi (the lunar day, based on the angle between Sun and Moon), vara (the weekday and its ruling planet), nakshatra (which of the 27 lunar constellations the Moon occupies), yoga (a combined Sun-Moon angle used for finer daily quality), and karana (a half-tithi subdivision).

Every one of those five numbers is a direct astronomical measurement, not a lookup from a printed table: tithi and karana come from the real angular distance between the Sun and Moon at that moment, nakshatra and yoga come from their real ecliptic longitudes, and vara comes from the weekday relative to actual local sunrise (which is why a birth or event just before sunrise can fall on the previous vara). That's the same sunrise-anchored convention traditional printed panchangs use.

A generic panchang is identical for everyone checking the same date and city — it describes the sky, not you. It's still genuinely useful on its own: many people check tithi for fasting and festival dates, vara for weekday-based rituals, and nakshatra/yoga/karana for scheduling ceremonies and travel. Where TaraQi goes further is layering this shared sky against your personal birth chart — your tara bala (today's nakshatra counted from your own birth star) and your day's hora/choghadiya windows are the personalized versions of this same astronomy.

Use this page for the day's shared panchang; use the Tara Bala and Hora & Choghadiya calculators alongside it once you know your own birth details, for the personalized layer.