A Living Instrument · Timing

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The figure the Sun "puts on" when it enters Makara each January — its mount, its weekday and its hour read as the omen of the year. Choose a year and place; the crossing, its pañcāṅga and its three plain omens are computed from the true Sun.

Place (sets the local day & hour of the crossing)

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Year (the Makara Saṅkrānti of…)

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The mount · वाहन

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This year's crossing · मकर संक्रमण

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What is computed here. The crossing moment, its weekday, its hour and its pañcāṅga are found from the true Sun and Moon (sidereal, Lahiri) for your place — so the mount (from the karaṇa) and the weekday- and hour-omens above are real. The rest of the figure's attributes — its name, garment, flower, weapon and the like — the almanac derives by rules that vary from panchāṅga to panchāṅga; rather than invent them, Arka shows one complete worked reading below.

पूर्ण वर्णन The full portrait — a worked reading

The complete figure, attribute by attribute, from one documented reading — {{ exampleWhen }}. Each thing the figure wears or bears is itself an omen.

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The eleven mounts · एकादश वाहन

One mount rides the figure each year, chosen by the karaṇa of the crossing — which is why the almanac's Saṅkrānti-Puruṣa picture changes its mount every January.

What sets what · निर्णय

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दान · the remedy

Held lightly. The Saṅkrānti Puruṣa is folk-meteorology and omen — a vivid portrait of the year's collective weather, read for reflection, never as prophecy, and never overruling a person's own chart. Its attributes are known to differ between almanacs; the computed spine above (weekday, hour, mount) is the part every panchāṅga agrees on.