How To See Panchang

                             PANCHANG

Panchang is a hindu calendar that keeps important dates and right time for doing any good work. Usually 'Brahmans' [pandit] often sees panchang and tells the person who asked for. It is published in India by many authors, universaties, private news channels or newspapers.

How to see 'PANCHANG'

Seeing panchang is an art and that can be learnt easily. You can learn this art by seeing this post at once.

A typical page of the panchanga has the first horizontal row which gives shaka, samvatsara name, chaandra maasa, paksha (viz. shukla, the waxing phase of moon or krishna, the waning phase of moon), the particular Gregorian month and year, the Hizari year, Samvat year and the Parsi year. Second row has headings for the respective columns, which include tithi. Waar. Ending time of the tithi. Nakshatra, the constellation close to the Moon. Ending time of the Nakshatra (the time when the moon leaves the particular constellation. Yoga (a relatively complex parameter linked to positions of Sun and Moon). Ending time of yoga. Karana (the half portion of a tithi). Ending time of karana. Dinamaana, the time span between sunrise and sunset. Hizari year date. Sun rise. Sun set. Time of the moon entering a particular zodiac sign and the Gregorian date.

The next column in the same row contains raatrimaana (the gap between sunset and sunrise) of the last day of the relevant fortnight, the ayanansh, name of the prevailing ayana and ritu (season). Note: The panchangas measure the day continuously from a sunrise to another sunrise. That is, if the day begins with the sunrise at 06:20 hours, the time is measured continuously upto the next sun rise which may go beyond 24 hours’ count. So whenever one comes across the timing like 29:33 hours in the panchanga, just deduct 24 from it to get the next morning timing viz. 5:33 hours in this case.

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