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Today’s panchang
Monday, June 8, 2026 · reference location Kathmandu
The panchang is the Vedic almanac, a reading of the day rather than of a person. Its name means “five limbs,” and those five measures — the lunar day, the weekday, the Moon’s nakshatra, the yoga and the karana — together describe the texture and quality of a given date. Below is today’s, computed for Kathmandu; to cast it for your own place and date, use the full panchang tool.
Tithi
Ashtami
Krishna Paksha
The lunar day: the growing angle between Sun and Moon, the heartbeat of the Hindu calendar.
Vara
Monday
Lord MOON
The weekday and its ruling planet, the most familiar of the five limbs.
Nakshatra
Shatabhisha
Lord RAHU · Pada 4
The lunar mansion the Moon occupies, the station that colours the mood of the day.
Yoga
Vishkumbha
Inauspicious
A combined Sun-and-Moon measure, traditionally read for the favourability of the day.
Karana
Balava
Half a tithi
Half of a lunar day; karanas are weighed when choosing a time for specific work.
Sun
5:07 AM – 6:58 PM
Day length 13.85 hours
Sunrise to sunset. The panchang is anchored to sunrise, not midnight, so the day begins at first light.
How to read it
Treat the panchang as weather rather than fate. A favourable yoga or an open Abhijit muhurta is a gentle tailwind for starting something; Rahu kala and the other inauspicious windows are simply hours that tradition prefers to leave for routine work rather than launches. None of it overrides a considered decision, and a single day’s almanac is read alongside the wider transits, not in place of them.
The Moon’s nakshatra is the limb that connects this daily reading to a birth chart: it is the same system of lunar mansions that sets your Vimshottari dasha. If today’s nakshatra caught your eye, the field guide to the twenty-seven nakshatras walks through each one.
Want this for your own place?
The full tool computes the panchang for any location and date, with hora, choghadiya and more.
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