Frequently asked questions

Sanskrit Calendar is an educational reference site pairing a daily classical Subhashita (wisdom verse) with a plain-language guide to the Sanskrit calendar system — the Panchanga, the Samvatsara cycle, Sanskrit months, festival etymology, Muhurta, and more.

No. We're an independent educational resource, not affiliated with any government, university Sanskrit department, or religious institution. For religious observance or academic citation, confirm with an appropriate authority.

The site is owned and operated by Evavel Private Limited, an Evavel Group company.

Yes, entirely free, with no login or account required.

Yes — Sanskrit Calendar is part of the same network. Daily Calendar covers festival dates and horoscopes broadly, Hindu Calendar gives a live daily Panchang, and Kundali.One offers birth-chart (Kundali) generation and astrology consultation. Sanskrit Calendar's own focus is the Sanskrit language and terminology behind the calendar.

पञ्चाङ्गम् (pañcāṅgam) means "five limbs" — the Hindu almanac built from five daily measurements: Tithi, Vara, Nakshatra, Yoga and Karana. See our full Panchanga guide.

Tithi (lunar day), Vara (weekday), Nakshatra (lunar mansion), Yoga (a Sun–Moon angular combination), and Karana (half a Tithi). Each has its own dedicated page under Panchanga.

A Tithi is a lunar day — the time for the Moon's angular distance from the Sun to increase by 12°. There are 30 Tithis in a lunar month. See our Tithi guide, with each of the 16 unique Tithi names explained individually.

Amavasya is the new-moon Tithi, closing the dark (Krishna) fortnight — see Amavasya dates. Purnima is the full-moon Tithi, closing the bright (Shukla) fortnight — see Purnima dates.

Ekadashi is the eleventh Tithi of each fortnight, occurring twice a month. Many Hindus, especially Vaishnavas, observe a fast on this day as devotion to Vishnu. See our Ekadashi dates for 2026.

One of 27 lunar mansions — 13°20' segments of the sky the Moon passes through during its orbit, each with a ruling planet and deity. See all 27 Nakshatras.

A Panchanga Yoga is one of 27 named combinations calculated from the Sun and Moon's combined longitude — unrelated to yoga as physical practice, though sharing the same Sanskrit root, yuj ("to join"). See our Yoga guide.

Karana is half of a Tithi — 11 named types in total, seven that repeat through the month and four that occur only once. See our Karana guide.

Paksha means "fortnight" — each lunar month has a bright, waxing Shukla Paksha and a dark, waning Krishna Paksha, each of 15 Tithis. See our Paksha guide.

A daily ~90-minute window traditionally considered inauspicious for starting new activities, calculated by dividing daylight into 8 parts. See our Rahu Kaal guide.

A Vedic system dividing day and night into 8 parts each, with every part assigned one of 7 types — auspicious, inauspicious, or neutral. See our Choghadiya guide.

A roughly 48-minute window around local solar noon, traditionally considered auspicious every day except Wednesday. See our Abhijit Muhurta guide.

The ~96-minute window immediately before sunrise, traditionally favoured for meditation and study. See our Brahma Muhurta guide.

The Sun's transit from one zodiac sign into the next — a solar event, unlike Tithi-based festivals, so each of the 12 Sankrantis falls on nearly the same Gregorian date every year. See our Sankranti guide.

Muhurta is both a unit of time (~48 minutes) and, more broadly, the practice of choosing an astrologically favourable moment for something important. We explain the traditional factors considered for occasions like marriage or Griha Pravesh on our Muhurta pages — but genuine Muhurta selection needs your birth chart and a qualified astrologer, not a generic date.

The Sanskrit word for a year in the 60-year Brihaspati (Jupiter) cycle used in the Hindu calendar — each of the 60 years has its own name. See our full Samvatsara list with the current year highlighted.

Vikram Samvat (epoch 57 BCE) is the traditional era used religiously and civilly across North India and Nepal. Shaka Samvat (epoch 78 CE) is the era behind India's official National Calendar. See our side-by-side comparison.

The classical Ritu system reflects the Indian subcontinent's climate directly, notably treating the monsoon (Varsha) as its own season. See our Ritu guide.

Most festivals are set by the lunar Tithi, not a fixed date. A lunar year runs about 11 days shorter than a solar year, so festival dates drift earlier each Gregorian year, periodically corrected by a leap month.

सुभाषित (subhāṣita) means "well-spoken" — a short Sanskrit verse conveying wisdom, drawn from texts like the Panchatantra, Hitopadesha, Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads. Browse our 24-verse collection.

No — they're our own plain-language gloss meant to convey the general meaning, not a literal or scholarly translation. For serious study, consult an annotated critical edition of the source text.

The Vasara (weekday) is exact. The Tithi, Masa and Samvatsara shown are solar-calendar approximations, not precise ephemeris-based Panchanga calculations — see our Disclaimer for details.