Aṣṭāṅga calculations

One of the main calendars used by Śrī Vidyopāsaka is Aṣṭāṅga, which is based on lunar calendar. Let’s
see how it is calculated for the 1st day of this year – 15th April 2014 which is the beginning of Solar
Calendar of year called ‘Jaya’, this corresponds to the lunar calendar as Cāitra śukla caturdaśi.

Find the kali yuga year from the almanac, the jaya varṣa is the 5116th year, so the years passed is 5115.

Convert this into months =5115 x 12 = 61380 months

Add extra months which were introduced by multiplying the above number with 939/911 and taking the
whole number out of this result.

61380*939/911 = 63266.5422 => take this as 63266 months.

(Since we are calculating for the first month (Cāitra), the next step of add the past months of this year is
omitted)

Convert this into tithis by multiplying with 30

63266 x 30 = 1897980 tithis.

Add past tithis of this month = 14 (since daśami came on two days)

1897980+14 = 1897994 tithis.

Deduct a correction for the tithis by multiplying the above tithis with 11/703 and taking the whole
number thus got.

1897994*11/703 = 29698.341 => take as 29698.

Thus 1897994-29698 = 1868296

This is the Kali śuddha dina.(KSD)

Now the Aṣṭāṅga calculations start as below:-

KSD divided by 5:- 1868296/5 = 373659 leaves a remainder of 1, which indicates the past ghatika, so
today is second ghaṭika ‘E’.

KSD divided by 9 :- 1868296/9=207588 leaves a remainder of 4, which indicated the past vāsara so today
is the fifth vāsara ‘ṭam Sri Satyānandanātha vāsara’.

KSD divided by 30:- 1868296/36=62276 leaves a remainder of 16, which indicated the past dina nityā so
today’s dina nityā is the seventeenth ‘aum kṛṣṇa jvālāmālini nityā’.

KSD divided by 36:- 1868296/36=51897 leaves a remainder of 4, which indicated the past dina so today
is the fifth dina ‘gham śuddha vidyā tattva dina’.
The above quotient (51897) is called dina phala when divided by 16:- 51897/16= 3243 leaves a
remainder of 9 which indicates past māsa, so today is tenth masa ‘ḹm Kulasundarī nityā OR ḹm Kānti kalā
māsa’.

The above quotient (3243) is called māsa phala when divided by 36:- 3423/36 =90 leaves a remainder of
3 which indicates past year so this is ‘gam īśvara tattva varṣa’.

The above quotient (3243) is called varṣa phala when divided by 36:- 90/36 =2 leaves a remainder of 18
which indicates past parvritti so this is ‘dam cakṣus tattva parivṛtti’.

The above quotient (2) is called parivṛtti phala when divided by 36 :- 2/36 =0 leaves a remainder of 2
which indicates the past yuga so this is ‘kham sadāśiva tattva yuga’.

Son compiling the above data in a single line will be - kham sadāśiva tattva yuga- dam cakṣus tattva
parivṛtti- gam īśvara tattva varṣa- ḹm Kulasundarī nityā OR ḹm Kānti kalā māsa- gham śuddha vidyā tattva
dina- ṭam Sri Satyānandanātha vāsara- ‘E’ kāra ghaṭika- aum kṛṣṇa jvālāmālini dina nityā.