Everything you need to know about the Nepali Panchang
Nepali Panchang is considered as a very important and sacred thing in Hindu mythology. Panchang has its own special standing in Hindu astrology. Panchang is basically an almanac, which means it is basically a holy calendar that provides useful information about various Hindu festivals, date of solar eclipse, important dates for planting, dates of fast, dry spells, rainfall and many more.
It is also very important for you to understand that Panchang works as per the geographical location. That means if you live in Nepal then you should bought the Nepali panchang that showcase the correct valuation of every event of that place.
Main benefits of Panchang
As you all known that people who follow Hinduism work as the muhurat, that means if there is shubh muhurat (auspicious time) only then they do any kind of auspicious work. And if there is rahu kaal (bad or inauspicious time) then people avoid to do any kind of auspicious work because it has been believed that during rahu kaal if anyone do any kind of auspicious activity then end result will always negative. So, in order to find the muhurats people or Hindu priest makes use of the Nepali Panchang that helps them to calculate the time of auspicious as well as inauspicious time easily.
About Nepali Panchang
Nepali Panchang or any other kind of Panchang works on the same principal and that principal is five elements. Five elements of the Panchang are such as –
Vaar – First element that include in the Panchang is vaar that means days of week that includes from Monday to Sunday. All days contains the time of sunrise as well as sunset.
Tithi – in Nepali Panchang it means lunar day or simply as date. There are all total 30 tithis in one month. And each is further divided in two parts and named as pakshas and each pakshas carry 15 days equal.
When moon is move towards the full moon from new moon that can also be known as waxing of moon then it is known as a bright fortnight or shukla paksha. And when there is full moon that is also considered as a brightest day and also last day of the month then that day is known as end of the current month or puranmasi. Tithi can come to end anytime during a day because it is totally depend upon on the position of sun as well as moon.
Nakshatra – there are all total 27 constellation or nakshatra in Nepali panchang. Each constellation takes a 360 degree round to zodiac. This can be helpful to see the horoscope of the person and what can happen to person in near future.
Yogas – in Nepali Panchang total 27 yogas are there. These yogas can prove to be good as well as bad but it depends on its nature.
Karana – in Nepali Panchang there are all total 11 Karana’s out of these 11 Karana’s there are total 4 Karana’s that is naga, sakuni, kinstughna, chaturpada, these 4 Karana falls in every month once at least.