panchanga

…chedule their weddings, their housewarmings and their journeys by the panchanga , the five-limbed almanac of tithi , vara , nakshatra , yoga and karana that we unpack in our chapter on reading the Hindu calenda…

The reckoning is done by panchanga , the lunar almanac, so the date moves each year.

Put all of this together and you have the panchanga , the almanac whose name means "five limbs." The five are the tithi , the lunar day; the vara , the weekday; the nakshatra , the lunar mansion the moon occupi…

…d" prostration in which a man lies full-length on the ground, and the panchanga , the "five-limbed" version, so that the whole body, not just the hands, makes the bow.

The five-fold form, the architecture The architecture of the purascharana, across the principal Sri Vidya lineages, is the panchanga - the five-fold form .