the five limbs · computed live
Tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana for any date — sidereal (Krishnamurti ayanamsa) at IST noon, from the same engine that scores 25 years of days inside the app. Every limb explained in plain language, no sign-up.
A panchang is not a forecast — it is the astronomical state of the day, in the vocabulary Indian tradition has used for centuries.
The Moon gains 12° on the Sun per tithi; thirty of them make a lunation. The bright half (Shukla) waxes to Purnima, the dark half (Krishna) wanes to Amavasya. Fasting days, festivals and most muhurtas are named by tithi.
The zodiac split into 27 stars of 13°20′ each, subdivided into four padas. The Moon's nakshatra colours the day's mood and is the anchor for tarabalam, naming syllables and marriage matching.
The Sun and Moon longitudes summed and divided into 27 parts — a quality of the day from Vishkambha to Vaidhriti.
Half a tithi. Seven movable karanas cycle through the month, book-ended by four fixed ones — Kimstughna opens, Naga closes.
Ruled by its planet: Sunday the Sun, Monday the Moon, and so on. The day lord shapes the hora sequence used for hourly timing.
Panchang means "five limbs": tithi (the lunar day), nakshatra (the Moon's star), yoga (the Sun–Moon sum), karana (half a tithi) and vaara (the weekday). Together they describe the quality of a day in the traditional Indian calendar.
From sidereal Sun and Moon longitudes (Krishnamurti ayanamsa) at 12:00 IST for the chosen date — the same ephemeris that scores every day in the app. Limbs that depend on local sunrise, such as rahukaal, are deliberately not shown rather than approximated.
Each limb changes at an exact moment, and traditional panchangs label the day by what is running at local sunrise. This page reports the values at IST noon, so near a transition you may see the next limb instead of the one your local calendar names.
No. It is a calendar — the astronomical state of the day. We use it as context for readings and never present it as a guarantee of outcome.