At that moment—6:47 AM IST, March 30, 2025—the Sun and Moon aligned in the constellation Revati . The five limbs of the Panchangam breathed as one.
She then performed the Samvatsara Sandhi ritual—the crossing from one cycle to the next. She calculated the exact moment of the Yugadi (New Year) for the next Samvatsara, named Krodhi (the angry one—a warning for the future). telugu panchangam 100 years
Venkataraya did not flinch. “The British measure the sky as a corpse. We measure it as a living body. Their equinox is mean; ours is true, corrected for the equation of time . Go back to your factory clocks.” At that moment—6:47 AM IST, March 30, 2025—the
In 1998, a strange thing happened. A young couple from Hyderabad, both software engineers, came to Srikakulam. They had conceived a child via IVF. The embryo had been implanted on a specific date in May. They asked Krishna Murthy: “What is the Janma Nakshatra of our unborn child, according to the date of implantation?” She calculated the exact moment of the Yugadi
Venkataraya was the fifth generation of his family to calculate the Panchangam. His great-great-grandfather had received the Surya Siddhanta formulas from a wandering sadhu in 1750. The method was brutal: calculate the mean positions of the Sun and Moon using cyclical constants ( bija ), then apply corrections for their anomalies. Each year’s Panchangam took three months of solitary labour.
Suryanarayana replied: “Sir, the National Panchang uses the Chitra nakshatra as its reference point for the sidereal zodiac. My family has used Rohini for two hundred years. Which star is wrong? Neither. The sky is not a machine. It is a garden. Let a hundred flowers bloom.”