1. Panchangs in astro-sites, 2. Naming baby

[Guest guest]

Dear friends

 

1. Panchangs: I wonder if any of you use Panchangs. This question is

because last year one of the List-members asked me to send him one to the

US. I went to the shop (in Bombay) & there were quite a few different

ones, all apparently popular, one from Rishikesh, one from Benares, 3 from

various parts of the South. Since each was only around Rs 30- 50, I just

bot all that were in Hindi & sent. Again just y'day I recd another request,

which I intend to comply in Sept, as thats when the coming year's wd be

released

 

Now by funny chance, yesterday itself, I saw on another computer screen in

my office (I shall NOT tell u the office I work in!!!) the Panchang icon

(under the astrology icon in the www.rediff.com site). This morning I

opened the site on my desk. It states: "The Rediff Panchang is true

traditional Hindu Panchang based on the Hindu calendar, computing the

auspicious time to start anything new. The calculations are done using

modern astronomical Ephemeris on a Nirayana basis. It can be termed a

Drigh-ganith Panchang"

 

What does the above really mean? Is it like the "real" printed Panchangs

that are normally there in most of our houses (ie when we used to live with

our parents before getting married, & becoming nuclear families, etc etc).

 

Could I request someone on this List who actually uses/ has used a

Panchang, to please look at the rediff site. Because IF it is a "real"

Panchang, I shall just tell all my foreign friends to log on to it, instead

of sending him printed Panchangs, & avoid the hassle of it getting lost in

post & the fact that the Panchang wd necessarily be in a vernacular

language which my foreign friends wd have to decipher (also: are English

Panchangs released? I hv never seen one in print, apart from these soft

ones in astro-sites?).

 

As these requests will coming in (for all of us based in India from those

abroad), you MAY want to take special effort for me, in showing this site

to your parents and asking their opinion.

 

Pl dont ask me what I mean by "Real", 'cos if I knew, I wd not have asked

this question?

 

2. Name: My daughter was born under Janm-nak (Mn) of Srav1 last month. I

looked up Kalprakashika which says the name is supposed to "start" from ga/

ja in various forms. Subhakaran's Nakshatras book says the same thing. It

also states that this reinforcement of Janm nak by the name was more useful

in earlier days to quickly identify the janm-nak in case of forgetting etc,

(& implied: may not be that constraining to parents frantically fending off

thous of sugestions from elderly laws & in-laws, ie just choose a name the

baby can live with). 2 qns: a) is the only rule that of initial syllable

based on janm-nak? b) any views on naming by naks in general?

 

Regards & thanks

 

Nandan

[Guest guest]

Namasthe.

 

Flushing, NY Mahaganapathi Temple has brought out Panchangam

in English through a well known Jyotishi in Kanchi Shankara

peetam. I have checked it, and it matches the many

vernacular panchangams.

 

Namasthe,

-tik

 

Nandan.Chakraborty wrote:

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> Dear friends

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(also: are English

> Panchangs released? I hv never seen one in print, apart from these soft

> ones in astro-sites?).