This that possible?

Telling the Dates by Seeing the Moon ? How..?

The moon does not appeal- the same every night. But it continues to change its shape. These different shapes are called kalas. The “deshi” (indigenous) date based on the kalas of the moon is called tithi.

Beginning from the next day after Amauasya, upto Purnima, the tithis.

are numbered as prathama (1) dwitia (2),... Panchdashi (15). They are of Shukla Paksha (ascending order of the moon). After that, and upto Amauasya the tithis are from 1 to 15 of Krishna Paksha (descending
Order of the moon . This is prakalp (arrangement) of a month. Begin it in a clear season from dwitiya (2) or tritiya (3) Shukla-Paksha, because you do not conveniently see the moon during the first one or two nights.”
“(a) Fix a time at night, say one or two hours after sunset. It may be 8.00 P.M. (summers), 7.00 P.M. (winters). Look for the moon every day in the sky at this hour, and draw its figure in your notebook. Write down date and tithi along with it. In this way go on making figures in
in your notebook, seeing in the sky until Purnima (a day or after it). On top of the page write the name of your place (city or district), the time of seeing, and the name of the indigenous month.”
b) When the Krishna-Paksha arrives, the moon rises late in the night. So you select some time near sunrise. Go on making figures of the moon as done earlier with the mention of tithis along with it.
“Carefully see the moon of teej (tritiya) of the Shukla-Paksha. It is thin like a sickle. But don’t you see its full round form in a faint way?
(d) Now make half a circle in your notebook. This is the path of the moon in the sky, which is spread from east to west. Now see the
moon everyday in the sky, as directed earlier. Pay attention to this also— where is it in the sky? In the east or in the west? How high? Make the figure of the moon every day in the half circle at its correct position. Write date and tithi. In this way, you will make two separate
pictures of Krishna-Paksha and Shukla-paksha.

More from तहक्षी™

“Why arghya (water offering) to the sun?

It is a common belief that by giving arghya to the sun one’s sins are washed out. It is written in the Skand-Parana that to take food without arghya to tha “sun is like committing sins

अथ संध्याया यदपः प्रभुक्ते ता विपुषो वज्रीयुत्वा


असुरान पाध्नान्ति ।।

The water used in prayer converts into vajra (hard stones) and destroys demons. The destruction of demons through sun-rays is figurative language. The demons for mankind are typhoid, tuberculosis, pneumonia etc. and their bacterias in water are destroyed by

the divine strength of sun-rays. The germs of anthrax, which survive years of drying, are killed by sun-rays in one and a half hours. Likewise, the harmful germs of cholera, pneumonia, small pox, T.B., which survive in boiling water are easily killed by the ultraviolet rays of

the sun, reactivated by water.”

In suryarghya, the devotees stand, in the morning facing the sun, take handful “attentively, you will see the seven coloured spectrum of light.
It is considered proper to offer water to the sun from a lota with convex edge. If the edge of the

pot, from which you are offering water to the sun, is concave, you will see the sun in a bigger form
In such a situation our eyes will not be in a position to bear the sun-rays. It would be better if the lota is of copper or brass, instead of a bright metal such as aluminium or

You May Also Like

1. Project 1742 (EcoHealth/DTRA)
Risks of bat-borne zoonotic diseases in Western Asia

Duration: 24/10/2018-23 /10/2019

Funding: $71,500
@dgaytandzhieva
https://t.co/680CdD8uug


2. Bat Virus Database
Access to the database is limited only to those scientists participating in our ‘Bats and Coronaviruses’ project
Our intention is to eventually open up this database to the larger scientific community
https://t.co/mPn7b9HM48


3. EcoHealth Alliance & DTRA Asking for Trouble
One Health research project focused on characterizing bat diversity, bat coronavirus diversity and the risk of bat-borne zoonotic disease emergence in the region.
https://t.co/u6aUeWBGEN


4. Phelps, Olival, Epstein, Karesh - EcoHealth/DTRA


5, Methods and Expected Outcomes
(Unexpected Outcome = New Coronavirus Pandemic)