This Bardhaman district of West Bengal, consists of 7024 Km of land, is surrounded by Birbhum and Murshidabad in the North, Hooghly in the south, rather south east, Nadia in the east, and in the north west part it shares the boundary with Dhanbad, a place of Jharkhand state. Bardhaman, shares the same plateau with Jharkhand district, which is mainly made of metasedimentary rocks of precambrian age. The alluvial soil in the south part of Bardhaman, is mixed up with the soil of delta plain, which is from by the flooded clay of Damodar- Kasain- Subarnarekha. The main river of the district are Bhagirathi- Hooghly, Ajoy, Darakeswar, Damodar and its Tributaries.
The number of Hindu people in the Bardhaman district is quite high, in both the part of Bardhaman, Purba Bardhaman and Paschim Bardhaman. However, in Purba Bhardhaman the number of Hindus are 3,566068 which is 73.75% of the total population. Whereas the number of Muslims are 25.89%, Christians are 0.18% and others 0.19% of the total.
About the Panchang
The Panchang (Panjika) is the Hindu almanac. It is used to choose auspicious times (shubh muhurat) for important events
— marriage, naming a baby, starting a business or entering a new home — and to identify inauspicious periods
that are best avoided. Festivals and pujas are also scheduled by it: Lakshmi Puja falls on Purnima tithi, for example,
and Durga Puja on Saptami.
The name means “five limbs”: Tithi, Vara (weekday), Nakshatra,
Yoga and Karana. This page calculates them for the chosen city and date, together with
sunrise, sunset and the Moon's phase. Timings depend on the location, so they differ from city to city.
Tithi and Paksha
A tithi is the time it takes for the Moon to move 12° ahead of the Sun, so there are 30 tithis in a lunar month:
Pratipada, Dwitiya, Tritiya, Chaturthi, Panchami, Shashthi, Saptami, Ashtami, Navami, Dashami, Ekadashi, Dwadashi,
Trayodashi, Chaturdashi and Purnima in the bright half (Shukla Paksha), and the same fifteen ending in Amavasya in the
dark half (Krishna Paksha).
Karana and Yoga
Each tithi has two karanas: the movable Bava, Balava, Kaulava, Taitila, Gara, Vanija and Vishti (Bhadra), and the fixed
Shakuni, Chatushpada, Naga and Kimstughna. There are 27 yogas, found by adding the longitudes of the Sun and Moon and
dividing by 13°20′: Vishkambha, Priti, Ayushman, Saubhagya, Shobhana, Atiganda, Sukarma, Dhriti, Shoola,
Ganda, Vriddhi, Dhruva, Vyaghata, Harshana, Vajra, Siddhi, Vyatipata, Variyana, Parigha, Shiva, Siddha, Sadhya, Shubha,
Shukla, Brahma, Indra and Vaidhriti.
Before starting a journey or anything important, prefer the auspicious times above and avoid Rahu Kaal,
Yamaganda, Gulika Kaal, Dur Muhurta and Mrityu periods.