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Cover image of Pambu Panchangam. Here are some examples of Vākyapañcāṅga-s: M. S. Pachiappa Mudaliar, 28 No. Pambu Sudhha Vakya Panchangam; K. N. Narayanamoorthy Arcot Seetharama Iyer Panchangam ; Ramanathapuram Vakiya Tamil Panchangam; N. R. Mahalingam Sivasakthi Panchangam, K. V. Kuppuswamy Hanuman Panchangam,
Panchaanga in Kannada Tamil Vakya Panchangam. A panchāngam (Sanskrit: पञ्चाङ्गम्; IAST: pañcāṅgam) is a Hindu calendar and almanac, which follows traditional units of Hindu timekeeping, and presents important dates and their calculations in a tabulated form.
They are also known as Vakya Panchangas. [2] In the history of astronomy in India, two different Drigganita systems have been introduced at two different points of time and at two different geographical locations. The first system was introduced by the Kerala astronomer-mathematicians Parameshvara (1380-1460) and Damodara in the fifteenth century.
The snake referred to here is the Moon in the Panchangam. The image of the snake contains 27 small circles embedded with it. These circles represent the 27 days the Moon takes to complete one full cycle. The reason Moon is represented as a snake is that, due to the pull and push of various planets, its path is like the path left by a snake on sand.
After the completion of sixty years, the calendar starts with the first year. This corresponds to the Hindu "century." The Vakya or Tirukannitha Panchangam (the traditional Tamil almanac) outlines this sequence. It is related to the position of the planets in the sky with respect to Earth.
Images of Sri Rama Chakra and Seetha Chakra as given in Pambu Panchangam. Image of Seetha Chakra as a magic square given in the Panchangam published by Srirangam Temple . Sriramachakra (also called Sri Rama Chakra , Ramachakra , Rama Chakra , or Ramar Chakra ) is a mystic diagram or a yantra given in Tamil almanacs as an instrument of astrology ...
It was printed in both Tamil and Telugu scripts. There were two versions of the Pañcāṅgam, one of which was a short version called Śiriya Pañcāṅgam and the other a longer one called Periya Pañcāṅgam. [3] Ragoonatha Chary gave several lectures to popularize the new almanac.
Chandravākyas (IAST: Candravākyas) are a collection of numbers, arranged in the form of a list, related to the motion of the Moon in its orbit around the Earth.These numbers are couched in the katapayadi system of representation of numbers and so apparently appear like a list of words, or phrases or short sentences written in Sanskrit and hence the terminology Chandravākyas. [1]