Re: Two different dates for Krishna Janmashtami??
hello and namaste,
Originally Posted by
Eastern Mind
Vannakkam: Right now it is 5:45 PM MST where I am. It's Wednesday. It's also 5:15 AM in Delhi, but it's Thursday. So if this particular moment was auspicious, it would on Wednesday and on Thursday.
Sometimes temples in the west just import panchangams from India without making the necessary time adjustments.
But also what Believer says. We often have differing festival daytes in different communities.
Aum Namasivaya
As if life were not complicated enough, a small (not exactly sure how small!) group of folks in India are insisting that "Vedic" zodiac was not sidereal but tropical and I believe they operate under the banner of Panchaang shuddhi and calendar reform and are propagating the idea that hindu festivals are being wrongly (their words, not mine!) celebrated nearly one month off the 'vedic' recommendations!
Frankly speaking, I had not been paying too much attention to the details in their sharings (mostly copy and paste and repaste!) but it all surely sounds like a big mess, across the board!!
The practice as shared by E.M. of some temples not correcting for localities sounds rather odd, since we all astrologers know the huge error that can cause. I only hope and pray that astrologers when erecting charts for nativities are not falling into that kind of erroneous zones of the time zones!
But seriously and astrologically speaking, there does exist an issue with varshapravesha, since for the annual and monthly etc charts of solar returns and lunar returns for individuals, some insist (including some icons in India) that the chart should be based on the birthplace as opposed to where the individual lives, for instance, Chennai vs Des Moines!
BIG DIFFERENCE!!
Rohiniranjan
Last edited by yajvan; 15 August 2014 at 04:10 PM.
Reason: added salutation - our custom
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