Our mission
Bringing families closer to their traditions, wherever home is.
Ishwar Panchang exists to bring Hindu families living outside India closer to their traditions, because traditions shared at home keep families and communities close and at peace.
Why it matters
Many Hindu families now live far from India. Our festivals, fasts and daily prayers are how we remember who we are, and how children learn it from their parents and grandparents. Away from India that gets harder: calendars are made for Indian time, and the meaning is rarely explained. Ishwar Panchang gives each family the right day and time for its own city, explains the why in plain English, and respects every tradition and region. When a family keeps its traditions together, children follow, and families and communities stay close and at peace. Our scriptures say the same.
Passing it on
Children learn our traditions by watching the people they look up to. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna:
कर्मणैव हि संसिद्धिमास्थिता जनकादयः ।
लोकसंग्रहमेवापि सम्पश्यन्कर्तुमर्हसि ॥
यद्यदाचरति श्रेष्ठस्तत्तदेवेतरो जनः ।
स यत्प्रमाणं कुरुते लोकस्तदनुवर्तते ॥
karmaṇaiva hi saṁsiddhim āsthitā janakādayaḥ
loka-saṅgraham evāpi sampaśyan kartum arhasi
yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ
sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute lokas tad anuvartate
Even kings such as Janaka reached perfection by doing their duties. So you too should do your work, if only for the sake of teaching people at large. Whatever a great person does, ordinary people do the same. And whatever standard that person sets by example, the whole world follows.
Peace at home
Festivals bring the family home. This prayer asks for a family that is one in heart:
सहृदयं सांमनस्यमविद्वेषं कृणोमि वः ।
अन्यो अन्यमभि हर्यत वत्सं जातमिवाघ्न्या ॥
मा भ्राता भ्रातरं द्विक्षन्मा स्वसारमुत स्वसा ।
सम्यञ्चः सव्रता भूत्वा वाचं वदत भद्रया ॥
sahṛdayaṁ sāṁmanasyam avidveṣaṁ kṛṇomi vaḥ
anyo anyam abhi haryata vatsaṁ jātam ivāghnyā
mā bhrātā bhrātaraṁ dvikṣan mā svasāram uta svasā
samyañcaḥ savratā bhūtvā vācaṁ vadata bhadrayā
I make you one in heart and one in mind, free from hostility. Show affection for one another, as the cow that must never be harmed does for her newborn calf. Let no brother hate his brother, nor sister her sister. United, and keeping the same vows, speak to one another in good and auspicious words.
Peace in the community
When a community keeps its festivals together, it stays close. The last hymn of the Rig Veda says:
सं गच्छध्वं सं वदध्वं सं वो मनांसि जानताम् ।
देवा भागं यथा पूर्वे संजानाना उपासते ॥
समानी व आकूतिः समाना हृदयानि वः ।
समानमस्तु वो मनो यथा वः सुसहासति ॥
saṁ gacchadhvaṁ saṁ vadadhvaṁ saṁ vo manāṁsi jānatām
devā bhāgaṁ yathā pūrve saṁjānānā upāsate
samānī va ākūtiḥ samānā hṛdayāni vaḥ
samānam astu vo mano yathā vaḥ susahāsati
Come together, speak together, and let your minds understand as one, just as the gods of old, in agreement, received their share of the sacrifice. Let your intentions be the same, your hearts the same and your minds the same, so that you may live well together, fully united.
Our promises
- Festival and fast dates, times, calendar feeds, PDFs, reminders for your city, and every page that explains a festival stay free for good.
- No ads near dates, times, prayers, verses or stories, and none in your calendar, PDFs or alarms.
- Your settings stay on your phone. We never sell data or use your faith to target ads.
- No one can pay us to change a date, a story, or which tradition we show first.
About these translations
The translations are in our own words, made from the Sanskrit. The Bhagavad Gita verses follow the meaning of the English translation in Bhagavad-gita As It Is, the Atharva Veda verses follow William Dwight Whitney’s translation (1905), and the Rig Veda verses follow the translations by H. H. Wilson (1866) and Ralph Griffith (1896). We also compared the Gita verses with out-of-copyright English translations by K. T. Telang (1882) and Edwin Arnold (1885), and the Atharva Veda verses with Ralph Griffith’s (1895 to 1896). The Gita and the Vedas are read in many ways by different traditions; we give the plain meaning of each verse, without one school’s commentary. We are having them checked by a priest or Sanskrit scholar. If you know a better reading, tell us.