Vedic Cosmos · the sky behind the calendar
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See the sky behind the tithi

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The differentiator

The sky, as it actually stood

A real geocentric sky you can turn with your hand — Earth, Sun and Moon among the twenty-seven nakshatras, for any moment you choose.

The Living Sky — a geocentric 3D sky with the zodiac and nakshatra rings

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Constellations from real star positions. Scrub time and watch each tithi form.

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Today’s sky

Moon phase
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Tithi
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Illumination
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Observer
The method

How a tithi is calculated

Not tradition guessing at the sky — a single angle, measured.

The angle between the Moon and the Sun, seen from Earth Sun Earth Moon 48° = tithi 4 Schematic — distances and sizes are not to scale.
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One angle, nothing else

Measure how far the Moon has pulled ahead of the Sun, seen from Earth. Every 12° of that gap is one tithi — thirty of them to a lunar month.

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The phase follows from it

The same angle decides how much of the Moon you can see. That is why the tithi and the shape in the sky always agree — they are two readings of one number.

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The nakshatra is separate

The nakshatra is not the phase. It is which of twenty-seven fixed star-segments the Moon is standing in — measured against the stars, not the Sun.

The fixed frame

Twenty-seven segments of sky

The Moon takes about 27.3 days to return to the same stars. Divide that path into twenty-seven equal parts and you have the nakshatras — the oldest layer of Indian sky-lore, and still the frame the calendar is built on.

The 27 nakshatras as equal segments, with the Moon's current position
Moon is in
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All 27 nakshatras
Heritage

Mahābhārata through the sky

The epic and the almanac describe one world in two registers — one narrated, one measured. These are the places where they touch.

Heritage

The Bhagavad Gītā

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।

Eighteen chapters, seven hundred verses, spoken between two armies — with a plain summary of what each chapter actually argues, in English and Kannada.

Bhagavad Gītā 2.47

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