Vishuddha Siddhanta Panjika

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Vishuddha Siddhanta Panjika (

Bengali year (1890 AD). Madhab Chandra Chattopadhyay of the Bengal of undivided India
was the first editor.

Accuracy

The 19th century

Orissa Mahamahopadhyay Chandrashekhar Sinha Samanta, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Pune, Western India, scriptural scholars like Bapudeva Sastri and Ketkar, experts from Kashi like Madan Mohan Malaviya, Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, Sasadhar Tarkachudamani, Acharya
Yogesh Chandra Roy Vidyanidhi of Bengal — advised the publication of Vishuddha Siddhanta Almanac.

Approval and adoption

Vishuddha Siddhanta Almanac is recognized by scholars of scriptures such as Deshikottama Dr Srijiv Nyayaratna,

Megh Nad Saha
, et al.

This almanac is approved and followed by

Kanchi matha, worldwide Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, Satsanga Ashrama of Deoghar
and other religious organisations.

Rashtriya panchang

The calculations of the almanac are fully done with the help of computers to show the accuracy of the renderings and, therefore, the timing of the puja and parvan for occasions are free from any mistake. Hence the Indian national calendar (Rashtriya Panchang) published by the Government of India fully tallies with the almanac.

However, the traditional school also has its validity. Jyotish Shastra is not astronomy, and it is based on the words of Parashara, Garga, Mantreshwara who never used computers or western astronomy. Further, the planetary positions of Jyotish-nakshatra, rashi-or rahu, Ketu etc. depend more on belief and assumptions than science.

Contents

Vishuddha Siddhanta Panjika provides articles on

vedic months and dates from the Indian national calendar
.

Daily declination of the Sun, equation of time,

planets
with explanatory sky maps are given. The dates of the main celebrations for the coming year are mentioned. An important addition is the dates of birth and death of many savants and saints of India irrespective of denominational adherence.

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