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Tithi: why the Hindu day is a lunar dayTwelve degrees between Sun and Moon: how the tithi is defined, why it varies in length, and why festivals follow it.Panchanga
Navratri, twice a year: Chaitra and SharadThe two nine-night festivals of the goddess, at the spring and autumn turns of the year, and the rules almanacs use to fix their first and last days.Panchanga
How to read a panchangThe five limbs of the Indian almanac, what each one measures, and how to make sense of a printed page.Panchanga
Why Diwali's date moves every yearDiwali is fixed by the Moon, not the Sun: by the new Moon that closes Ashwina, by the evening it covers, and by the Lakshmi Puja window inside that evening.Panchanga
Ekadashi: the eleventh lunar dayWhy a lunar year has 24 Ekadashis and sometimes 26, and why smarta and vaishnava almanacs can print different dates for the same one.Panchanga
Sankranti: the Sun's twelve sign entriesWhy Makar Sankranti stays near 14 January while Diwali wanders, how the twelve sankrantis are classed, and the slow drift that will move the date.Panchanga
Adhika masa: the leap monthTwelve lunar months fall about eleven days short of the solar year. How the calendar inserts a thirteenth month, when it does so, and what the rare lost month is.Panchanga
Amanta and purnimanta: the Hindu calendar's two month systemsTwo ways of deciding where a lunar month ends, why they give one festival two month-names, and which regions use which.Panchanga
Muhurta: choosing a time, the Kalpa wayFrom the ritual sutras to the Muhurta Chintamani: how the tradition thinks about doing an act at a fitting moment.Panchanga
Shunya: how India gave the world zero, and why it matters to JyotishZero as a placeholder, zero as a number, and the astronomers who needed both to compute the sky.Ganita
The 27 nakshatras: a sky map older than the zodiacBefore the twelve signs reached India, the Vedic sky was read by the Moon's nightly stations. What they are and how they are still used.Panchanga
Choghadiya: the day in eight partsHow the choghadiya divides daylight and night into eight periods each, why the sequence starts where it does, and where the system is used for muhurta.Panchanga
Eclipses in the Indian sky: what is computed and what is keptHow the siddhantas compute a grahana, what Rahu and Ketu stand for in that computation, and sutak as a practice that varies from one tradition to another.Siddhanta
Grahas are not planets: the nine "seizers"Why Jyotish counts the Sun, the Moon and two invisible points among its nine grahas, and what the word actually means.Jyotish · Hora
Namakshar: the syllables of the nakshatra padasHow a table of 108 syllables came to be used in naming children, what the grihya sutras say about names, and what they do not.Panchanga
Rahu Kaal, Gulika and Yamaganda: where the day-divisions come fromThree daily periods printed in almanacs, each an eighth of the daylight chosen by weekday: how they are computed, and why we treat them as later conventions.Panchanga
Sidereal and tropical: what the ayanamsa is, and why LahiriTwo zodiacs, one sky. How the slow wobble of the Earth's axis separates them, and how India chose a standard in the 1950s.Siddhanta
South, North and East Indian charts: one sky, three drawingsThe three regional ways of drawing a birth chart hold the same information. How each is laid out, how to convert between them, and what each makes easy to see.Jyotish · Hora

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