Panchang for Tuesday, 10 November 2026
| Tithi | Pratipada |
|---|---|
| Paksha | Shukla |
| Nakshatra | Vishakha, pada 4 |
| Yoga | Shobhana |
| Karana | Bava |
| Vara | Mangalavara |
| Sunrise (Ujjain, IST) | 06:37 |
| Sunset (Ujjain, IST) | 17:44 |
Today's tithi is Pratipada, in the Shukla paksha, the waxing half of the lunar month. The Moon moves through Vishakha nakshatra, pada 4. The vara is Mangalavara, and the panchang's remaining limbs are Shobhana yoga and Bava karana.
What are nirayana and ayanamsa?
Nirayana means the sidereal zodiac, measured against the fixed stars rather than against the equinox, and the ayanamsa is the slowly growing offset between the two, here the Lahiri value used across Indian astronomy.
Earth's axis wobbles, and the wobble drags the March equinox backward against the stars by about fifty arcseconds a year, a full circle in roughly twenty six thousand years. A tropical (sayana) zodiac starts at the equinox and travels with it. A sidereal (nirayana) zodiac starts at a fixed point among the stars and stays put. Jyotisha uses the second, and so does every figure on these pages.
The gap between the two starting points is the ayanamsa. It currently stands a little over 24 degrees and widens by about one degree every seventy two years. Subtract it from a tropical longitude and you have the sidereal one. The nakshatra, the yoga and every other star referenced number in a panchang depends on that subtraction, which is why the ayanamsa gets named out loud instead of assumed.
One visible effect: a sidereal Sun sign is usually one sign earlier than the tropical sign you may have met elsewhere. Nothing has been moved and nobody is wrong. The two systems count from different origins and each stays consistent inside itself, so the only real error would be mixing them in one calculation.