Divine Bond

Kunti is the wife of Pandu. Source evidence (SB 1.8.7): Kunti is the wife of Pandu; SB 1.8.7 calls the brothers 'Pandu-putran' and at SB 1.8.23 Kunti calls them her sons. Evidence: STRONG_CONTEXT.

Kunti & Pandu — wife

Divine Bond Kunti → Pandu

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय॥

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Oct 10

Mahalaya Amavasya

Day honouring ancestors (pitrs) with tarpan, beginning the Durga Puja season.

10-Oct-2026

Oct 11

Sharad Navaratri

Nine nights of Goddess Durga, celebrated with devotion, dance and fasting.

11-Oct-2026

Oct 19

Durga Ashtami

Eighth day of Navaratri, sacred to Goddess Mahagauri with kanya puja.

19-Oct-2026

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Thursday • 08-Oct-2026 • Nearest available calculation: New Delhi

Vikram Samvat 2083

Balance that sustains

Thursday is traditionally associated with Vishnu, preservation, dharma and wise guidance.

ॐ नमो नारायणाय

Tithi • तिथि

TrayodashiKRISHNA

Nakshatra • नक्षत्र

Purva PhalguniPada 3

Yoga • योग

Shuklaशुक्ल

Karana • करण

Garajaगरज

Masa • मास

Kartikकार्तिक

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Current ChoghadiyaUdveg08-Oct-2026 04:48 — 08-Oct-2026 06:21Choghadiya — the period now in effect. This is separate from the Muhurats below; a Choghadiya can be auspicious or inauspicious.

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New Delhi • 08-Oct-2026 • Calculated for this location

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Yama Gandam

06:21 07:48

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Gulika Kalam

09:15 10:41

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Abhijit Muhurat

11:45 12:31

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Rahu Kalam

13:35 15:02

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Unborn non-doer whose births and deeds the seers sing

'Janmani karmani hy akartur ajanasya ca varnayanti sma kavayo veda-guhyani hrt-pateh' (SB 1.3.35).

Sixteen thousand queens with their palaces at Dvaraka

'prasada yatra patninam sahasrani ca shodasha' (SB 1.11.31) — these are the women freed at the slaying of Bhauma (SB 1.10.29).

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The Manus are kalas of Hari (SB 1.3.27). Evidence: EXPLICIT.

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Vidura

विदुर

Vidura (Kshatta), born of Vyasa and the maidservant of Ambika, is the younger brother of Dhr…

Concealed the news of the Ya… A devotee who is himself a p… Renunciation of the royal ho…

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Virat-Purusha

विराट्पुरुष

The Virat-Purusha, or Vairaja Purusha, is the Lord's gross universal form in which the entir…

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Maharaja Parikshit

महाराज परीक्षित

Maharaja Parikshit, son of Abhimanyu, is the last great emperor of the Kuru line: cursed by …

Maharaja awaiting death on t… Beheld the thumb-sized four-… The name means: one who exam…

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Arjuna

अर्जुन

Arjuna is the third son of Pandu and Kunti, Krishna's dearest friend: hero of the Mahabharat…

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Sages of Naimisharanya

नैमिषारण्य के ऋषिगण

The Sages of Naimisharanya are the collective assembly of rishis — headed by Shaunaka — who …

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Maya

माया

Maya is the Lord's own potency (atma-maya): the creative, three-mode power that projects the…

The Lord's own potency, of c… When she, the lucid intellec… The power whose nature is bo…

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Rajas-guna

रजोगुण

Rajas-guna is prakriti's second mode: energy, passion and striving, breeding in the mind lus…

Carries lust, greed and the … Not binding the first of the… The guna that floods the cre…

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Kapila

कपिल

Kapila is the first teacher of the Samkhya system: tradition knows him as Kapiladeva, son of…

Restored the Samkhya lost to… https://en.wikipedia.org/wik… Kapila — avatara of — Krishn…

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Narada

नारद

Narada, mind-born son of Brahma, the deva-rishi: inter-celestial messenger, vina-bearing pro…

As deva-rishi preached naish… Former birth: maidservant's … Hearing Krishna-katha awaken…

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Bhakti

भक्ति

Bhakti is loving self-surrender to the Supreme: the crown of all dharmas in the Bhagavata. I…

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Kunti is the wife of Pandu. Source evidence (SB 1.8.7): Kunti is the wife of Pandu; SB 1.8.7 calls the brothers 'Pandu-putran' and at SB 1.8.23 Kunti calls them her sons. Evidence: STRONG_CONTEXT.

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