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What the Vedic sciences are, and how they connectA map of India's classical knowledge traditions, from the Vedas through the six Vedangas to the applied sciences, and where Jyotish sits among them.Veda
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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MuhūrtacintāmaṇiRama Daivajnaमुहूर्तचिन्तामणि…naming and initiation to building and travel. It sets out the qualities of tithis, nakshatras, varas, yogas and karanas, and the conditions that make a moment suitable or unsuitable. Its commentary Piyushadhara by G…