| ॥ श्रीः ॥ | March 29 | March 30 | ||
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| +5:30 | India | Udupi | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (ćāndra) | |
| Kolkata | ||||
| Manali | ||||
| New Delhi | ||||
| Bengaluru | ||||
| Gokarna | ||||
| Morjim | ||||
| +5:00 | Tajikistan | Dushanbe | ||
| Russia | Perm | Sūrya-grahaṇam | ||
| Ufa | ||||
| Orenburg | ||||
| Yekaterinburg | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (ćāndra) | |||
| Surgut | Sūrya-grahaṇam | |||
| Chelyabinsk | ||||
| +5:00 | Kazakhstan | Aktobe | ||
| Aktau | ||||
| Kokshetau | ||||
| Almaty | ||||
| Tekeli | ||||
| Ust-Kamenogorsk (Oskemen) | ||||
| +6:00 | Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | ||
| Russia | Omsk | |||
| +7:00 | Krasnoyarsk | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (ćāndra) | ||
| Novokuznetsk | ||||
| Novosibirsk | ||||
| Barnaul | ||||
| Tomsk | ||||
| Thailand | Ko Pha-ngan | |||
| +8:00 | Indonesia | Denpasar | ||
| +9:00 | Russia | Mirny | ||
| +10:00 | Khabarovsk | |||
| Vladivostok | ||||
| +12:00 | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | |||
| +4:00 | Armenia | Yerevan | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (ćāndra) | |
| Georgia | Tbilisi | |||
| Russia | Samara | |||
| +3:00 | Volgograd | |||
| +4:00 | Ulyanovsk | |||
| +3:00 | Pyatigorsk | |||
| Stavropol | ||||
| Semikarakorsk | ||||
| Krasnodar | ||||
| Kerch | ||||
| Simferopol | ||||
| Russia | Donetsk | |||
| Stary Oskol | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (ćāndra) | |||
| Lipetsk | ||||
| +3:00 | Voronezh | |||
| Tambov | ||||
| Kazan | ||||
| Cheboksary | Sūrya-grahaṇam | |||
| Kirov | ||||
| Rostov-on-Don | ||||
| Russia | Ryazan | Sūrya-grahaṇam | ||
| Moscow | ||||
| Dubna | ||||
| +3:00 | Velikiy Novgorod | |||
| Saint Petersburg | Sūrya-grahaṇam | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (ćāndra) | ||
| Murmansk | ||||
| Kostomuksha | ||||
| Arkhangelsk | ||||
| Smolensk | ||||
| Belarus | Gomel | |||
| Minsk | ||||
| Grodno | ||||
| +2:00 | Ukraine | Kharkov | ||
| Poltava | ||||
| Kremenchug | ||||
| Krivoy Rog | ||||
| Kiev | Sūrya-grahaṇam | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (ćāndra) | ||
| Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovograd) | ||||
| Nikolaev | ||||
| Odessa | ||||
| Rovno | Sūrya-grahaṇam | |||
| +2:00 | Kolomyia | |||
| Israel | Ashkelon | |||
| Moldova | Kishinev | |||
| Cyprus | Nicosia | |||
| Latvia | Riga | Sūrya-grahaṇam | ||
| Jurmala | ||||
| Estonia | Tallinn | |||
| Lithuania | Vilnius | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (ćāndra) | ||
| +1:00 | Poland | Warsaw | ||
| Austria | Vienna | |||
| Germany | Hitzacker | |||
| Norway | Oslo | |||
| Germany | Dillingen an der Donau | |||
| Eppingen | ||||
| Switzerland | Biel/Biennne | Sūrya-grahaṇam | ||
| France | Marseille | |||
| Spain | Barcelona | |||
| Madrid | ||||
| Ceuta | ||||
| +0:00 | UK | London | ||
| -3:00 (DST) | Canada | Fredericton | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (ćāndra) Sūrya-grahaṇam |
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| -4:00 (DST) | Toronto | |||
| USA | New York City | |||
| Philadelphia, PA | ||||
| Miami | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (ćāndra) |
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| -5:00 | Mexico | Cancun | ||
| -6:00 | Canada | Meadow Lake | ||
| -7:00 (DST) | USA | Los Angeles | ||
| ॥ ॐ तत्सत् ॥ | March 29 | March 30 | ||
Sūrya-grahaṇam, Solar Eclipse
On March 29 a partial solar eclipse will be observed in the Eastern part of North America and North-West of Eurasia. One can learn about the particulars of the eclipse in one's location from here or here. Note that NASA Website is often inaccurate as far as time zones are concerned.
During solar eclipse one shall not sleep, eat, drink or otherwise entertain oneself. Chanting stotras or mantras, listening to Śāstrās or discussing Śāstric matters, taking oblation in Tīrthās, etc. is the proper way of observing the time of eclipse. One have to take care that the light of the eclipsed Sun doesn't fall on any foodstuffs and into the innermost chamber of a temple. One should abstain from eating from the very morning till eclipse is over.
Those requirements are related to an eclipse potentially observable by a sādhaka in his location (including an eclipse which could be observed by him but for a clouded sky). An eclipse taking place elsewhere on Earth doesn't impose any specific set of actions.
New “Viśvāvasu” Year
Ćāndra-yugādi — the beginning of the new year according to Ćāndric calculation (from the bright pratipada of Ćaitra month).
Saura-yugādi — the beginning of the new year according to solar calculation (on the day after Meṣa-saṅkrānti).
In Uḍupi it is customary to observe the new year beginning according to solar calculation. This time both new year days are consecutive.
Nava-varṣa, i.e. New Year, is traditionally observed by taking bath in holy tanks, oil ablutions, visiting Deva-mandiras, listening to pañćāṅga (coming year's almanac), eating flowers of neem tree, raising banners of dharma. New Year begins with the rise of Sūrya, therefore in the evening a tray with goodly things: coconuts, fruits, a mirrow, gems, is put in front of the worshippable Image of Kṛṣṇa in Uḍupi. Such pure, beautiful and auspicious offerings to Śrī-Kṛṣṇa are the first thing to be seen upon awakening in the new year.
“Viśvāvasu” is the 39th year in 60-year Bārhaspatya cycle (the cycle determined by the movement of Bṛhaspati — ‘Jupiter’). The coming “Viśvāvasu” year is 5127 years of the age of Kali (Vedic time-keeping system, unlike the Western calendar, counts the number of completed years and not the sequence number of the current year) and 787 years of Madhva's era.
The peculiarities of the upcoming year (regarding humanity in general and especially applicable to those nations and societies which live by dharma as they fit the definition of ‘human’ more than others) are described in the Jyotiṣ-śāstra as follows:
स्वल्पाम्बुवृष्टिः फलसस्यसम्पत् मध्या जनानां गदसम्भवश्च ।
विश्वावसौ स्यात्पृथिवीश्वराणां लक्ष्मीर्विलोला चिरसञ्चितापि ॥
“The rain is scarce, fruits and grains yield mediocre crop, illnesses arise in population, while the Lakṣmī of the rulers of the Earth — their wealth, power, and success, is rather fickle, albeit long established.”
‘Viśvāvasu’ is one of Viṣṇu's Names known from Mahābhārata. In Bhīṣma-parva Bhīṣma quotes the words of Ćaturmukha addressing Viṣṇu Himself:
विश्वावसुर्विश्वमूर्त्तिर्विश्वेशो
विष्वक्सेनो विश्वकर्म्मा वशी च ।
विश्वेश्वरो वासुदेवोऽसि तस्माद्
योगात्मानं दैवतं त्वाम् उपैमि ॥
viśvāvasur viśvamūrttir viśveśo
viṣvakseno viśvakarmmā vaśī ća •
viśveśvaro vāsudevo’pi tasmād
yogātmānaṁ daivataṁ tvām upaimi ••
‘Vasu’ is ‘wealth,’ ‘treasure,’ and Bhagavān Viṣṇu is the principal wealth in the whole of ‘viśva,’ or the world. Dhātu √vas means ‘covering,’ and the Universe, the ‘viśvam’ safely hides Him from its inhabitants, while √vas also means ‘dwelling,’ and Viśvāvasu dwells everywhere in viśvam, and viśvam dwells in Him.
Let the only imperishable Treasure of the world uncover Himself to saj-jīvas and attract them to strive for Him. Let Lakṣmī help in this pursuit; let Viśvāvasu give them strength to be neither inebriated nor incensed by proximate or distant lustre of treasures she is lending out.
om • viśvāvasave namaḥ • om
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