2011 Hindu Festivals, Panchangam Calendar

2011's hindu festivals, calendars and calendar is available at http://www.mypanchang.com

* 2011 Festivals lists download link http://www.mypanchang.com/hindufestivals2011.php

(This link has a list of festivals and their observance dates for each time zone in USA/Canada, UK, and India. also has a downloadable iCalendar file for each timezone mentioned above. You can download them and merge with your Outlook or Live Calendar).

Also this year you can visit following locations to pick up the printed calendars prepared for the Greater Seattle area:

Sanatan Dharma Temple & Cultural Center
19826 SE 232 ST,
Maple Valley, WA 98038
Phone: (425) 413-8900

Mayuri Food & Video
Bothell, Bellevue, Redmond, & Issaquah locations

Inchin’s Bamboo Garden
16564 Cleveland Street
Redmond, WA 98052
 
For Dallas Area it can be obtained from
Sree lalithapeetham
910 West Parker Rd.
Suite 340
Plano, TX 75075
Contact Temple: 972-423-2009

In Houston please contact Sanatan shiva shakti temple
In Austin please contact Austin Hindu Temple
in Vancouver please contact Nanda Jewellers Inc, on Main street.
In Toronto Contact Toronto Pooja Center at 416 670 7927
In Mumbai you can contact Khodiar Fire and Safety equipments www,khodiarfire.com or Valuegroup.


If you are interested in preparing similar calendar for your temple please free to contact us. We provide complete solution with printing on high quality 100 pound glossy paper with offset/digital printing.  We ship everywhere in the world.

You can download pdf file from mypanchang.com site. The pdf files for download are available for:

Vancouver, BC, Canada
Toronto, Canada
Austin, TX
Dallas, TX
Houston, TX
Madrid, Iowa
Mumbai, Maharastra, India (valid for India)
Seattle, WA USA

The ICS files can be downloaded and imported into outlook:

How to use provided ICS file with Microsoft Outlook?

1. click on your timezone and save it onto appropriate folder. "My documents" folder for example.
2. Open Microsoft Outlook. Click on the File Menu and click on Open Panchangam
3. Go to the Calender tab of the outlook. Right Click on the new calender and click on the "View in Overlay Mode"
4. Now we can see both the calendars in a single pane.
5. if you import this with into your live calendar by logging into hotmail and importing the ics file you'll get indian festivals automatically on your windows 7 phone.

How to use provided ICS file with Microsoft Live A/c and integrate with windows 7 phone

• Download appropriate ics files for your timezone and save it to mydocuments
• Login to your hotmail a/c
• Select Calendar from left hand menu
• Click on Add a new calendar under Calendars on left hand side or from top New Calendar
• Enter details 2011 Hindu Festival calendar in Name: and click Save
• click on Subscribe on top menu right above calendar
• Click on Import from an ICS file
• Select location of ics where you saved your file "My Documents"
• Click on Import Calendar button
• click on Done when import is done

How to use provided ICS file with Google Calendar

• Download appropriate ics file for your timezone
• login to gmail a/c
• Click on Calendar
• click on Add under my calendars
• Enter Calendar name: 2011 hindu festival calendar
• Click Create Calendar
• click Settings
• Click Import Calendar
• click choose file and select location where you saved your ics file "My Documents"
• from calendar drop down box select the newly created calendar
• click on "Import"

Vaikuntha Ekadasi

Reference: mypanchang.com

Vaikuntha Ekadasi: USA/Canada/Carrebian: December 16th 2010.

UK/India/Gulf, Australia: December 17th 2010. 

Those who observe vaikuntha ekadasi on 17th in USA/Canada they are not observing it correctly. The earth isn't flat. If earth was flat then vaikuntha ekadasi would come to USA/Canada as the same date mentioned in indian calendar. But the earth is round and we have days and night.

Ekadashi finishes at 14:26 on December 17th as per Indian standard time. If you subtract. The new york time difference of 10 hours 30 minutes it will be the night of 16th and morning of 17th which is 3 hours 56 minutes. The rises in New york around 7:56 AM and ekadasi isn't visible on that day in New york. but it's visible at sunrise on 16th December and hence as per EST time zone it will be 16th December for New york but if you take the Central timezone then also it's 16th December same goes for other timezone. Basically in USA and Canada Vaikuntha Ekadasi is on 16th December and other parts of the world on 17th December. Even in Carrebian islands its on December 16th. Rest of the world -- 17th December.

if you have questions email me at shastriji at mypanchang com

Vaiknuntha Ekadasi

Reference: mypanchang.com

Vaikuntha Ekadasi: USA/Canada/Carrebian: December 16th 2010.
UK/India/Gulf, Australia: December 17th 2010. 

Those who observe vaikuntha ekadasi on 17th in USA/Canada they are not observing it correctly. The earth isn't flat. If earth was flat then vaikuntha ekadasi would come to USA/Canada as the same date mentioned in indian calendar. But the earth is round and we have days and night.

Ekadashi finishes at 14:26 on December 17th as per Indian standard time. If you subtract. The new york time difference of 10 hours 30 minutes it will be the night of 16th and morning of 17th which is 3 hours 56 minutes. The rises in New york around 7:56 AM and ekadasi isn't visible on that day in New york. but it's visible at sunrise on 16th December and hence as per EST time zone it will be 16th December for New york but if you take the Central timezone then also it's 16th December same goes for other timezone. Basically in USA and Canada Vaikuntha Ekadasi is on 16th December and other parts of the world on 17th December. Even in Carrebian islands its on December 16th. Rest of the world -- 17th December.

if you have questions email me at shastriji at mypanchang com

Hindu Panchangam in the west and the east (the USA, India and the Australia)

Reference: mypanchang.com


Indian Calendar/Panchangam is used everywhere where hindu lives. I even see people posting I want pambu panchangam but I live in USA and not available. The question arises can indian panchangam used outside of India?


People usually align the hindu festivals with the English dates based on indian calendar and then they think if an indian calendar says Janmasthami on a certain date say Sept 2^nd 2010, then everywhere in the world it will appear on the Sept 2^nd.  USA is 10:30 to 15:30 hours behind from India so some of them also think it will come next day in USA, i.e. Sept 3^rd 2010. They also argue that my family priest in india told me to celebrate on this date and according to him indian calendar will apply to all places in the world. This is completely wrong assumption.


The English date and the day (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday etc..) changes at the midnight whereas the hindu date or tithi, and the hindu days doesn't change at the midnight. Hindu day changes at the sunrise. All days are from one sunrise to another sunrise. Sunday will start at one sunrise and end at next sunrise.


The hindu date (tithi -- depends on the positions of sun and the moon at any given time) changes anytime as celestial bodies keep moving. They can change anytime between two sunrises. This means if prathama tithi ends today at 23:02 it doesn't mean that dwitiya tithi will end tomorrow at the same time. It can end at 18:00, 18:09 or 28:27 (anytime after 24 means time after midnight but before next day sunrise), or whatever.


Now what's the hindu date (Tithi)?
It's simple tithi is a lunar day, or the time it takes for the longitudinal angle between the moon and the sun to increase by 12°. Tithis begin at varying times of day and vary in duration from approximately 19 to approximately 26 hours. So maximum distance between the sun and moon can be 360 degrees. If you divide them by 12 degrees that gives you 30 equal parts. Means we have 30 dates in hindu calendar divided between the bright half, and (Shukla Paksha, Waxing moon) and the darker half (Krishna Paksha, and the waning moon).


Panchangam contains two types of calculations. One based on the local coordinates like longitude and latitude(Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset, etc)., and the other is based on geocentric planetary positions.
Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset times are always calculated for each and every place on the earth. Local Sunrise, Sunsets are used to find daily Rahukalam, Yamagandam, gulikai, durmuhurtham times.


The other set of calculations are calculated from the center of the earth (geocentric). The positions of heavenly bodies are calculated from the center of the earth and hence they are geocentric. The planetary positions are first calculated from the center of the sun (heliocentric) and then using the spherical trigonometry they are converted to the center of the earth (geocentric). The tithi, nakshatra, yoga and karana and daily planetary positions are based on the positions of the Sun and Moon in the heavens and they are part of the astronomical phenomenon. These are astronomical phenomenon it happens instantly at the same moment on the earth and hence thithis, nakshatra will end at the same time / instance all over the world and we have to convert them to the local standard time of the specific country of interest. When eclipse occurs and it's visible all over the world then one converts that time into their timezone. The planets don't wait for sunrise or sunset at the particular place. They just keep moving, like earth is moving around the Sun.


These planetary position of the sun and the moon is computed based on the local time (longitude, latitude) converted to the Universal Time. The tithi end time is also calculated in the Universal time which is then converted to the local time of the place. The planets are calculated from the center of the earth their positions at the given time will be same all over the world. The same way to observe any celestial event occurs we need to convert it to our local time. Indian Panchang makers convert this to Indian time. The very same say we need to convert it to our time zone for America (PST/PDT, CST/CDT, MST/MDT, EST/EDT). After adding the time difference we get the resulting english date and time when they end. Hence, when the calendar is made of india the date they mention is when that tithi will end as per the english date in india. If you take the same date and time use it anywhere in the world as it is then we have a wrong result because of the time difference, and sunrise, sunsets.


For example:
October 17th 2008 the Ashwayuja (Ashwin) krishna Paksha / Poornimant Kartik Krishna paksha tithi Tritiya ends at 16:39:21 Indian Standard Time, and chturthi starts. That means at 16:00 hours there is tritiya still prevailing in India. Now on October 17th 2008 in Seattle, WA at the 16:00 hours we won't have tritiya at that time. We already have chaturthi started. Why? a) Planets keep on moving.... 13 hours have passed and the position of sun and moon have changed. So what time Tritiya will end in Seattle? The time difference is 13 hours 30 minutes (with one our day light saving time it gives the difference of 12 hours 30 minutes from IST). So, let's subtract 12 hours 30 minutes from the 16:39:21. That gives us 04:09:21 AM on October 17th. So on October 17th after that time we'll have chaturthi tithi and before we have tritiya. The same way if tithi ends at 8:39 AM on Sept 12 in India it will end at 20:09 PM on Sept 11th in Seattle. The same way Western Australia is 8 hours ahead of GMT and hence the chaturthi will end there at 12:09 PM on Sept 12th. The planets don't wait for appropriate tithi to arrive on some english date at any location in the world. If it really did we won't have any days and nights (If it happens then celestial bodies will remain static in sky). The earth is round and it keeps moving, we have days and nights. It doesn't wait for tithi or festivals. Time never waits for anyone. It goes on. The sun doesn't rise instantly at the same time all over the world. Hence we need to convert the tithi, nakshatra, yoga, and karana time to local standard time. Now we know what time a given tithi ends it's a time to decide festival dates for each region.


How festivals are determined?
The usual rule to observe festival is whenever that tithi prevails at the sunrise time. But each festivals may have different rules of observance.  For example: Ganesh Chaturthi. Sankathara (Sankshathi chauth) chaturthi, Janmashtami, Mahashivaratri, Karwa Chauth, etc... For example Ganesha chaturthi has to be oserved when the chaturthi tithi is observed during the 8th/15 part of the dinmana or the 3/5th part of the dinmana. The dinmana is the difference of local sunset and the sunrise on the same day. If chaturthi is not prevailing during that period then take the second day. Likewise for the karwa chauth and the sankathara chaturthi the chaturthi tithi must be prevailing during the moonrise time, if it doesn't prevail then take the day where it prevails during the sunrise.


So for example if one thithi is observed at the moonrise time in india it may or may not be observed during the moonrise time on the same day in the different part of the world. It may be very well observed on the previous day if you are in America or the next day if you are in Japan, Fiji, Australia and other countries, depending on the local events like sunrise, moonrise, and time difference. Sometime it could be observed on the same day as the date mentioned in India. America is behind india in terms of time. To arrive at the time from india we need to subtract the time from indian time and hence festivals could arrive a day early in usa but not later. For example if a total lunar eclipse is visible in india at 5:00 AM we’ll have a previous day in USA, not the next.

For these reasons Indian panchangam you buy in India cannot be used outside of India. Even sometimes festival observance dates could vary between Kolkata to Mumbai. So Forget about using it outside India. If you are looking for precise panchangam for your city please visit mypanchang.com

Diwali muhurat

While I was leaving home i got call from someone, "Your website mypanchang.com has only one muhurta for dhanteras day where as our temple priests gives 4 or 5 muhurta? Why do you give only one muhurtha in the day?".

I smiled first and answered. The best time to do diwali / dhanteras puja is pradosha kala and sthira lagna. According to dharmashastra when you do puja during pradosha kala (sunsset to sunset + 2 hours 24 minutes) with sthira langa (Vrishabha, Simha, Vrischika, and Kumbha) lakshmi will stay in your house -- sthira means she'l ll be fixed in your house, won't leave your house. The another good time is Mahanishitha kala (midnight - 24 minutes to midnight +24 minutes) with sthira lagna on diwali day. This is best time. We have given both muhurtha on our site. :)

Sometimes muhurtha may prevail for only 5 to 6 minutes. Then what to do? You do purvang puja -- Ganesh puja, kalasha puja before that muhurtha and start chanting some lakshmi mantra till the muhurtha time arrives. When muhurtha time arrives do lakshmi invocation and do puja and then it can continue beyond that time.

Now when other pundit gives you 3 or 4 muhurta they are giving you what is known as per chogadia, or guari panchangam, Which is good only for travelling not for puja muhurtha. I am not sure why they even mention it. We only give best possible time. If you do puja in those chogadia muhurtha which is not prevailing during pradosha or mahanishitha kala then it's just lakshmi puja done on any other day. For diwali importance to puja is given when lakshmi comes to your home. She visits every home during Pradosha kala and mahanishitha kala Also another thing to note that we have muhurtha for over 394 major cities worldwide along with their panchangam.  If you have been following my site i've explained you cannot use calendar/panchang/jantri or muhurat time from India and use it abroad. Indian panchang/jantri/calendar is waste outside of india due to longitude, latitude, time-difference, different sunrise, sunset, moonrise timings. For more details on that please read here also here.

If you are reading this I strongly recommend you to do puja in above mention times. You can visit http://www.mypanchang.com/diwali.php to get Diwali/Dhanteras muhurta / moorat timings for your city.

1. Learn how to read panchangam.
2. Which is accurate panchangam?

Diwali moorat muhurat muhurta

For diwali 2010 moorat muhurat muhurat visit http://www.mypanchang.com/diwali.php

Diwali muhurta

Please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/diwali.php for 2010 diwali lakshmi puja muhurta.

Diwali 2010

Please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/diwali.php to find most auspicious diwali lakshmi puja muhurtha, moorat, muhurta for different cities in the world like USA/Canada/UK, India, Europe, Middle East (Arabian Gulf, Dubai, Kuwait, Baharin etc.), South-Africa, Africa, Singapore, Srilanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, China, Japan, Newzeland, Fiji islands and many other parts of world.

Dhanteras 2010

Reference: http://www.mypanchang.com/dhanteras2010.phpPlease click on your region for Dhanteras Muhuartha 2010

1. Muhurtha for USA/Canada
2. Muhurtha for India
3. Muhurtha for Other cities in the world
   (Europe, Middleeast, Carrebian, South East Asia, China, Japan, Australia, Newzeland, Fiji, and other cities)

For more details visit mypanchang.com

Diwali Lakshmi puja muhurtha, Moorat, Muhurta

Please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/diwali.php to find most auspicious diwali lakshmi puja muhurtha, moorat, muhurta for different cities in the world like USA/Canada/UK, India, Europe, Middle East (Arabian Gulf, Dubai, Kuwait, Baharin etc.), South-Africa, Africa, Singapore, Srilanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, China, Japan, Newzeland, Fiji islands and many other parts of world.

Diwali lakshmi puja muhurtha for 2010

I am glad to announce release of diwali lakshmi puja muhurtha for major cities in the world like USA, Canada, Europe, UK, Russia, China, Japan, Gulf, Middle East, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Newzeland, Fiji and many other countries.

To find muhurtha please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/diwali2010.php

If you have questions please let me know.

Dhanteras muhurtha for 2010 (USA/Canada, UK, India, Middle East, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Newzeland, Fiji, and many other cities)

Reference: http://www.mypanchang.com/dhanteras2010.php

Please click on your region for Dhanteras Muhuartha 2010

1. Muhurtha for USA/Canada
2. Muhurtha for India
3. Muhurtha for Other cities in the world
   (Europe, Middleeast, Carrebian, South East Asia, China, Japan, Australia, Newzeland, Fiji, and other cities)

For more details visit mypanchang.com

Labh Pancham 2010 dates

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Labh Pancham

• Canada/USA/UKi/Middle East/India: November 10th 2010
• Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Newzeland, Fiji: November 11th 2010

Bhaiya duj 2010 dates

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Bhaiya Duj / Bhai bij

• Canada/USA/UK: November 7th 2010
• Middle East, India To Australia, Newzeland, Fiji: November 8th 2010

Gujarati New Year 2010 dates

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Bali Pratipada/Gujarati New year

• Canada/USA/UK: November 6th 2010
• Middle East, India To Australia, Newzeland, Fiji: November 7th 2010

Diwali Abhyang Snanam/Oil bath dates 2010

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Diwali (Oil bath/Going to temple)

• Canada/USA/UK: November 5th 2010
• Middle East, India To Australia, Newzeland, Fiji: November 6th 2010 (Gujaratis will call dhoko day)

Diwali / Lakshmi Puja dates for 2010

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Diwali (Lakshmi Pujan) (Muhurtha for lakshmi puja coming soon)

• Entire World (Except Newzeland): November 5th 2010
• Newzeland, Fiji: November 6th 2010

Kaali Chaudash 2010 dates

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Kaali Chaudash

• Entire World (Except Newzeland): November 4th 2010
• Newzeland, Fiji: November 5th 2010

Narak Chaturdashi/Chhoti Diwali dates for 2010

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Narak Chaturdashi

• USA/Canada: November 4th 2010
• Rest of World: November 5rd 2010

Dhanteras Dates for 2010

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Rama Ekadashi

• Hawaii: November 1st 2010
• Canada/USA(PST to EST)/West Indies/UK/Middle East: November 2nd 2010
• India To Australia/Newzeland/Fiji: November 3rd 2010

Govatsa Dwadashi/Vaagbaaras

• USA/Canada to UK: November 2nd 2010
• Middle East/India to Australia, Newzeland, Fiji: November 3rd 2010

Dhantrayodashi/Dhanteras

• USA/Canada/UK/Middle East/India: November 3rd 2010
• Singapore/Malaysia/Australia, Newzeland, Fiji: November 4th 2010

Ahoi Asthami 2010

Ahoi Asthami

• USA/Canada/UK: October 29th 2010
• Rest of world: October 30th 2010

Asthami should be there at the time of moonrise. hindu day is from one sunrise to another sunrise and hence when moonrise occurs past midnight but before next day sunrise (normal for asthami) previous day needs to be taken for Ahoi Asthami.

The similar situation arises in usa on 29th October and on 30th during moonrise asthami not visible and hence for people in USA/Canada/UK, October 29th and for gulf, India and other countries East of GMT its 30th October 2010.

Karwa Chauth 2010

Reference: mypanchang.com

Someone called me and said karwa chauth. dot com says "This year Karwa Chauth is on 25th October and your own mypanchang.com says 26th. What's the truth?  Like anyone will say I am right! I am right! hence i said I am right but i don't like to say that without explanation. I've no clue why some sites say 25th October 2010. When I was visiting Vancouver BC last week. Mr. Ganesh Nanda from Nanda Jewellers also raised the same point, saying some people says 25th and some say 26th October. Which is true please punditji explain us.

Rule for karwa chauth:

Common misconception:
Most people believe that it's a 4th night after purnima. Actually  its not the 4th night from purnima but the 4th tithi after purnima which is chaturthi tithi prevailing during the moonrise.

More detailed rule as per dharmashastra.

Tithi Chaturthi must prevail during moonrise if not take the second day. It's not the 4th day after purnima but chaturthi tithi visible during moonrise. That's the important rule.

On the moonrise time of the 25th October chaturthi is visible only in the one place in the whole world is -- Hawaii, rest of the world tritiya is visible at the moonrise of 25th october. Hence 25th cannot be taken for karwa chauth.  When chaturthi isn't visible during the moonrise of both days then  we need to take the second day. Hence we have to take 26th October for karwa chauth for the rest of the world. If you are reading this please change your website to reflect the correct date.

I have no idea where karwa chauth dot com getting ideas about 25th. :) The actual date is only for Hawaii karwa chauth is on 25th October for rest of the world including india, united states, and everywhre its october 26th 2010.

2010 Karwa Chauth Dates:
Only in Hawaii:  October 25th 2010
Rest of the world: October 26th 2010

Knowing moonrise time:

Please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/panchang.html and then select your country, state and city from drop down menus and click show panchang. Then you can select Horizontal or vertical or any format panchangam and then scroll down to Oct 26th 2010 and check Moonrise. That's the moonrise time. Now what if moon isn't visible? Please read following article: http://www.mypanchang.com/when-to-break-fast-on-sankashta-chaturthi.php

Please read about Karwa Chauth 2009  dates
Please read about Karwa Chauth 2008 dates

Amrutha, Siddha and Marana Yogas

I've been continuously telling people that your favourite panchangam from india cannot be used outside of india. Please read more here. Recently I got a phone call from a gentleman from kerala looking for a muhurtha in New york region. I pulled up mypanchang.com's new york calendar for 2011 and checked for January 22 2011 has Marana yoga. I checked. It was pubba (Purva Phalguni Nakshatra). Now Purva phalguni nakshatra and saturday combination creates a Labma Yoga (part of ananadi yoga) which in turn gives hani... loss and which maps to marana yoga as per tamil calendar. I said that day has marana hoga. However for weddings and other things there is a completely different approach in muhurtha. This yogas are simply used for travel. Now a days people book date well in advance without knowing the date is good or bad.

They called up some temple in New york and they said nope its not marana yoga its a Amrutha yoga. I was surprised to know. I double checked calculation. As per calendar in india it would have been siddha yoga because Magha nakshatra and Saturday combination gives siddha yoga. Hence I said may be in india (In india it has a siddha yoga), not in new york. The gentleman replied 5 priests from that temple and one in houston temple says its amrutha yoga. I was surprised. very much surprised. To have amrutha yoga on saturday they need Ashlesha and Saturday or combination or Swathi and Saturday combination which is not remotely possible on those days. I am so much surprised to see the knowledge of priests or may be they wanted to book marriage and not let client go? I am still surprised why learned people make such mistake.  Please one of those five learned priests from New-York Temples enlighten me about how did you arrive at conclusion that saturday and purva-phalguni nakshatra gives Amrutha yoga.

Finally I hanged up the phone saying well its your call. I live in seattle not even performing your daughter's marraige nor we are charging for muhurthas. Its a free/honorary service. The temple priests should-not book puja based on some schedule or log book, instead they should spend some time to calculate right muhurtha, otherwise they are incurring bad karma on their part.

Pundit Mahesh Shastri
mypanchang.com
Seattle, WA
Oct 21st 2010

Vedic astrology free Jatakam, Kundali, Horoscope

We are excited to introduce two new features on your premier panchangam site, mypanchang.com. 

New Panchang formats! By popular demand, we've added new panchangam formats to display panchangam:

• Vertical format -- Traditional Indian style with large calendar format
• Mini format -- Essential elements such as Tithi, Nakshatra, and Moon rashi
• Tabular format -- Traditional Indian style with tabular format

Introducing Jatakam, Horoscope, and Kundali! 

Many of you have asked for a way to create your own Jatakam, Horoscope, and Kundali. We have heard you and to support your needs, we have released a new site to prepare Jatakam, Horoscope, and Kundali Key features:

• English Jatakam/Kundali and other languages coming soon
• Vedic and KP chart formats
• Color Jatakam in PDF/XPS (requires using CutePDF or PrimoPDF and printing optimized for Microsoft Windows based computers)
• Browser and Client based software options
• Automatic daylight savings adjustment

We invite you to experience the new astrology software at http://www.mypanchang.com/astrologyFor client based software review the release notes and requirements athttp://www.mypanchang.com/astrology/help.php and download software at http://www.mypanchang.com/astrology/download.php

My inspiration is my grandfather. With his blessings I have started this site. My family has supported me all the way. My wife Nayana has supported a lot for this website. I've put countless hours. She isn't a programmer or a techie. But whenever I am stuck she will say, Anything I can help?. Without her support I wouldn't be able to present this site to you. Thank you Nayana for supporting me.

Once again If you have any questions about our site or new features. Please feel free to call me or drop a note.

Yours
In service of God
Pundit Mahesh Shastriji 

Dussera of 2010 

Seattle, WA United States of America 

Bolchauth (Gujarat)

for dates please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/ and click on festivals tab.

Kajari Teej 2010

for dates please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/ and click on festivals tab.

Raksha Bandhan 2010

for dates please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/ and click on festivals tab.

Yajur Upakarma / Shravani / Changing of Yagnopavit/ Poonal/ Upanayana 2010

for dates please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/ and click on festivals tab.

Onam 2010

for dates please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/ and click on festivals tab.

Righaveda Upakarma 2010

for dates please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/ and click on festivals tab.

Varalakshmi Vratam 2010

for dates please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/ and click on festivals tab.

Jun 26th 2010 Eclipse information

Eclipse is visible in South America, America, India, Australia, South East Asia, Newzeland. It's not visible in Africa, Gulf Countries, Europe. for more details visit nasa website for eclipse timings visit Panchangam and click on eclipse tab. Eclipse timings (Including shadow contacts): India 14:25 - 19:51, America/Canada PST: 01:55-07:21, MST: 02:55-08:21, CST: 03:55-09:21, EST:04:55-10:21, for other countries, please subract your time difference from London(GMT) time: 8:55-14:21

If it's not visible in your area there is no need to observe eclipse. During eclipse if possible stay home and chant gayatri mantra or guru mantra.
Refernce: http://www.mypanchang.com/

Doing havan/homam at home? looking for the right muhurtha?

The one important thing as per muhurtha chintamani is (among others) is location of fire... called agni vasa... when the fire is on earth doing homam/havan gives happiness..... when the fire is in heaven doing homam/havan gives Loss of life, when the fire is in patala or hades (the underworld) doing havan on that day gives loss of wealth. How to know this? We have recently updated our panchangam to show this information. Please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/panchang.html and set your city or use show panchangam after selecting your city, then select panchangam (the first entry) you'll see the location of fire for each day!!! when the fire is on earth it's good to do havan for happiness and blessings. Remember different events ocassions have different rules. There are other factors like tarabalam, lagna shuddhi important too.... these are given as a general purpose guidelines for astrologers, purohits to find best possible muhurtha.

Using panchangam made in india in foreign countries

Great! You've got a your favourite panchangam from India. Can you use it outside of India? A BIG NO. why? Please read: http://www.mypanchang.com/indianpanchang.php. The above link also gives comparison of live panchangam data for Seattle WA, Newyork NY, London UK, Hyderabad India, Sydney Australia. Please read it and pass it to your friends.

Tamil Panchangam

Added important muhurtha features like Amrutha Yoga, Siddha Yoga and Marana yoga for various cities all over the world in our tamil panchangam. to get details Please visit tamil panchangam at mypanchang.com. Once you are there click on panchangam and then select your city and click on first entry Panchangam. Only english versions updated so far.

Panchang

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Panchangam

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More features added at mypanchang.com

Added following items in all panchangams in english (current and history):

1. Vikrami Year (North)
2. Vikrami Year (Gujarat)
3. Fixed Shaka years

Following items are added to current panchangam (2009 onwards)
1. Abhijit Nakshatra start and End timings.
2. Added Panchaka/Panchak details
3. Added Sun's nakshatra -- Important for muhurtha calculations.
4. Fixed Shaka years.
5. Added Vikrami year for North and Vikram Samvat for Gujarat.

Upcoming addtions: (with in a month)
1. Important Yogas like Ravi, Gurupushyamrit yoga, sarvasiddhi yoga, Amrit yoga
2. Amrit/Siddha/Marana Yoga daily
3. Anandadi Yoga
4. Instant tarabalam checker

Please visit www.mypanchang.com today. Please please please send us
your feedback at shastriji at mypanchang dot com

100 years panchangam available

We have 100 years panchangam available for most timezones at www.mypanchang.com. Please visit www.mypanchang.com today and click on 100 years panchangam. It gives panchangam for year 1900 to current year 2010, and 2011.

If you have questions please write to shastriji at mypanchang dot com

New features Annoucements

Om mahaganapataye namah
Om namo nArAyaNAya
om Namashshivaya

On this auspicious Akshaya Tritiya day I would like to present some features on our premier hindu panchangam website http://www.mypanchang.com. We started in 2007 and in 3 and half years we are almost at 4 million users. It’s my promise that we’ll continuously add more features for end users. We have added following new features on our website:

1. A complete new mobile site: http://m.mypanchang.com This can be accessed via high end phones like Iphone and Windows Mobile 6.5+, Android, Symbian and higher phones with support for javascript, cookies, and CSS and a data plan. To access this site you’ll need to logon to m.mypanchang.com. If you access mypanchang.com with a mobile phone you’ll be automatically redirected to this new site. You can access most contents available on desktop version on this site.

2. Windows Mobile Sidebar Gadget: We have written a sidebar gadget for windows Vista and Windows 7 o/s. You can download this from http://www.mypanchang.com/sidebargadget.php. You can also search on windows live gallery for Hindu Panchangam Gadget.

3. Web Gadget: We have gotten many request to display panchangam on users websites, or blogs with mypanchang.com data. We have heard you. You can visit http://www.mypanchang.com/panchang2010.html and first select your city and then click on “Code to embed Panchangam” button to get code. You can paste anywhere in your html where you want to display panchangam. If you want to display it please use it and email us your site name. We’ll proudly display your site on our site. There are some sites already using it. Some of the sites using it:

a. http://www.hindu-wedding-priest.co.uk/
b. http://cincinnatitemple.com/
c. http://www.seattlepandit.com you can hover on Today’s panchangam.
d. http://hindupanchang.blogspot.com/

4. RSS Feed: We have also RSS feed option so you can get your city’s daily panchangam in your inbox. All you need to do is visit our site http://www.mypanchang.com/panchang.html and select your Country and City and click on either “Save and Show Panchangam” button or “Just Show Panchangam” button and then you can click on “RSS” icon. Microsoft Outlook and other email programs can subscribe to the RSS Feeds. Alternatively you can use Internet Explorer to subscribe RSS Feed. You can paste the FEED url into your outlook and then your outlook will automatically update your daily panchang. Alternatively you can use this feature on your mobile phones and use RSS Readers. Windows Mobile 6.5+ and Iphone comes with RSS Reader. If you want more details please contact me.

5. New Format for 2011 Panchangam: We got many request to present a panchangam in a printable format. We have heard you. With this we have new format. From December 2010 you’ll get both the traditional and new formats. Many other formats coming soon. Please stay tuned. Please let us know if there is any error so we can correct it.

6. New format for traditional format: We have included shaka year number. Samvatsara name. Important for daily sankalpa. Also we have included tooltips so when you hoover on the date you’ll get the tool tip. Please let us know if there is any error so we can correct it.

7. Advertisements: The cost of hosting has risen. We have now dedicated server and they are expensive. Hence we have decided to include advertisements. If you feel like supporting us please click on our sponsors advertisements. This will help us site going.
My inspiration is my grandfather. With his blessings I have started this site. My family has supported me all the way. My wife Nayana has supported a lot for this website. I've put countless hours. She isn't a programmer or a techie. But whenever I am stuck she will say, Anything I can help?. Without her support I wouldn’t be able to present this site to you. Thank you Nayana for supporting me.

Once again If you have any questions about our site or new features. Please feel free to call me or drop a note.

Yours
In service of God
Pundit Mahesh Shastriji

Hindu Panchangam available on mobile phones -- Iphone, Windows Mobile etc..

You are at temple and wanted to check Rahukalam? Today's nakshatra? and other information and no computer available? or access to panchangam or computers? If you are a priest and going to someone's house for puja and you want to check today's nakshatra and other information for your city? We have gotten many requests from people to provide mobile panchangam and we've heard you. Your worries end now. Your favourite mypanchang.com site has gone mobile now. All you need is javascript enabled browser on your mobile phone (Opera browser or IE on windows mobile, Iphone, etc...) with mobile internet connection. all you have to do is visit following site and it's very easy to remember:

http://m.mypanchang.com/

You'll be presented with a default panchang for Seattle, WA, USA but you can change your location by clicking the link on top of the screen http://m.mypanchang.com/mobilechangeloc.html). However, you'll need javascript enabled browser. For best viewing in the display settings of browser uncheck following, "Automatic full screen", Select Minmum font size to "normal". With this you can have mobile panchang free on your cell phone. We'll keep adding features to this mobile site. Currently you can view only today's panchangam, but we are working on providing full fledged panchangam on your mobile phone. all you need is javascript enabled browser. I've tested it on my windows mobile 6.5 phone. (HTC TILT with Opera & IE browser).

Please remember to give your feedback to us. we'll launch official site m.mypanchang.com on auspicious akshaya tritiya May 16th 2010.

Questions ? Read following.

• Supported Mobile Phones: Any Phone that has internet capabilitiy with a browser that supports javascript, cookies. Currently we have tested it with windows mobile 6.0 and above with Opera Browser. We have some issues with IE on windows 6.0. Tested on Iphone, Symbian OS.
• Supported Browsers: Opera on Windows mobile phone seems to be working well. Default browser on Iphone and Symbian OS works well. Waiting for Windows Mobile 7 Phones.
• Setting Default Location: Sometimes you'll see your default location isn't setting. To overcome this you can set your location here and then bookmark the resulting page after clicking Save Default button. This will ensure you'll have your city displayed all the time. This is because your browser may not be supporting cookies.
• Selecting another date: To view panchangam for another date click on the edit box before the "Select a Date" button and then after selecting a new date click on the Select a Date button. Until you press this button the panchang for requested date will not be displayed. When you click on the date edit box and don't see the control please enter the date there in YYYY-MM-DD format. Here try to make sure the year is 4 digits. the month is 2 digits. If January enter 01, for dates less than 10 start it with zero same goes with a month. For example: 2010-01-09.
• Questions: Please send email to shastriji at mypanchang dot com.

Hindu Panchang (Panchangam) RSS feeds, Daily Updates, Mobile Panchangam

I would like to announce availability of RSS feeds(beta) for your city. This means you can get daily panchang updates in your inbox using RSS feeds (via Microsoft outlook) or RSS reader. It will send you two feeds one for today's panchang and one for tomorrow's panchang. To access this you can visit http://www.mypanchang.com/panchang.html and click on your city and then click on RSS icon. Alternatively you can also visit http://www.mypanchang.com/rssfeeds.html and click on RSS icon.

Please send us your valuable feedback. This means you can also use AJAX readers and put it on your webpage and display daily panchang for your city on your webpage. Also you can use RSS Readers on your mobile phones and subscribe to feeds and get daily panchangam updates for free on your windows mobile phones or Iphones. Alternatively you can use windows sidebar gadget to get daily panchang updates via RSS Feeds.

Also we have new format for 2011 panchangam. We'll be testing this new format for feedback for few months. This new format can be accessed at http://www.mypanchang.com/panchang2011.html. you can click on your city and select appropriate english panchangam to see the new format. This is going to be the default format for America. For India and other countries we'll make old format will be available. Also this new format will allow you to print for your daily use. The calendar format we had doesn't fit on normal paper. But this will fit. Also we'll have various formats available like tabular, and other formats. This new format has many features like year number, samvatsara names.

We are also working on mobile application for windows mobile and Iphone. This will be available soon. Meantime you can use RSS feeds for your city to get daily updates on your desktop. More updates coming soon.

We are moving to new dedicated server with more space. This means we'll be shortly releasing 100 years panchang from 1900 to 2010 for selected cities in the world.

Please visit http://www.mypanchang.com/ and suggest to your friends.

Akshaya Tritiya 2010

Reference: http://www.mypanchang.com/

• USA, Canada, UK, Gulf Countries, India, Singapore, Australia: May 16th 2010
• New Zealand: May 17th 2010

Ramanuja Jayanthi 2010

Reference http://www.mypanchang.com/

• Hawaii, Pacific Time zone(USA/Canada), MST (USA/Canada): April 19th 2010
• Rest of the world: April 20th 2010

Adhika masa ends

Reference: http://www.mypanchang.com/

• USA/Canada, UK: May 13th 2010
• Rest of the world: May 14th 2010

Adhika masa starts

Reference: http://www.mypanchang.com/

• Hawaii, Pacific Time zone(USA/Canada), MST (USA/Canada): April 14th 2010
• Rest of the world: April 15th 2010

Vishu 2010

Reference http://www.mypanchang.com/ for 2010 predictions please visit www.mypanchang.com

• USA, Canada, Europe: April 14th 2010
• India and rest of world: April 15th 2010

Tamil New Year 2010

Reference http://www.mypanchang.com/ for 2010 predictions please visit www.mypanchang.com

• Hawaii, Pacific Time zone (USA/Canada): April 13th 2010
• Rest of the world: April 14th 2010

Sri Rama Navami 2010

Reference: http://www.mypanchang.com/hindufestivals2010.php

• Entire World Except Newzeland: March 24th 2010
• Newzeland: March 25th 2010
  

Yugadi / Ugadi / Hindu Vikram New year for year 2010

Reference: http://www.mypanchang.com/hindufestivals2010.php
Chaitra Yugadi / Ugadi / Hindu New Year / Chaitra Navaratra dates:

• USA/ Canada: March 16 2010
• Europe, Gulf Countries, Africa: March 16th 2010
• India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore: March 16th 2010
• Australia (WA and NT): March 16th 2010
• Remaining Australia, Newzeland, Fiji Islands: March 17th 2010

for more details visit mypanchang.com

Karadyan Nonbu 2010

Reference: http://www.mypanchang.com/hindufestivals2010.php
Entire World Except Newzeland: March 14th 2010
Newzeland: March 15th 2010

Karadyan Nonbu Puja times:
please visit myPanchang for 2010 and select your city and look for Sun:Mina timings. you can start puja around that time. For example: in the Pacific time zone USA the Sun enters mina at 9:53 AM and hence puja is done onset of maasi before mina rashi starts. The MST time is 10:53 AM, the CST timeis 11:53AM, the EST time is 12:53 PM. The time in UK is 16:53 PM. The time in India is 22:23 PM like wise you can click on myPanchang for 2010 and click on your city and find your puja time.