What is panchang in ePandit?
Explainer · reviewed August 2026
Panchang is the daily calendrical bundle used in Vedic practice. In ePandit’s engine today, daily panchang details return nakshatra, nakshatra pada, vāra, hora ruler, tithi, and yoga for a given date, latitude, longitude, and timezone — when Swiss Ephemeris is available.
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What the app shows today
Fields available today: nakshatra, nakshatra pada, weekday, hora ruler, tithi, and yoga. Sunrise timing is preferred; noon is a fallback only if sunrise calculation fails.
When a value cannot be computed
If the engine cannot compute a value for your date and place, the app says so and shows nothing in its place. It will never substitute a plausible-looking number, a nearby city, or an average. A panchang value that looks right and is not is worse than a blank, because there is no way for you to tell.
This applies to whole categories as well as single fields. We do not compute karana, and we do not compute the lunar month across an intercalary (adhika) month — so we say nothing about either, rather than reporting the value we could guess. Every field the app does show is calculated from Swiss Ephemeris positions for your own coordinates and the day's actual sunrise.
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ePandit checks these rules against your own birth chart, and shows which are sourced to a classical text and which are our engine's.