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Explainers from the ZindSa workshop

Eight pieces on how the calculations work, one tradition at a time, each written from the app's own code and its own disclosures, including the parts that are a convention rather than a citation, and the parts that are missing.

How Easter is computed, and why Orthodox Easter usually falls elsewhere

Two computus algorithms, a thirteen-day offset that refuses to run outside the years it was calibrated for, and one feast derived by subtraction so it can never drift out of step.

Paryushan and Das Lakshan: two traditions, two computed parvas

The Shvetambar and Digambar parvas are not one date with a variant. They are separate tithi rules under one engine, and one parva is deliberately left unscoped.

What ZindSa shows for Buddhist observance, and what it leaves out

Three observances, three texts, and a tradition tag that deliberately computes nothing. This is the thinnest dharma in the app, and the reasons are written down.

The daily Vak, and why ZindSa will not read a prediction into it

A deterministic daily draw from the app's own Gurbani corpus that always declines to answer the question you asked, and the reason comes from Gurbani itself.

Aaj ka Panchang: what the five angs actually are

Most people read a panchang for one line of it. Here is what all five parts measure, and how ZindSa arrives at them without asking a server.

Muhurat, choghadiya and rahu kaal: what the difference actually is

They get used interchangeably and they are not the same thing. Each is derived differently, and one of them is not on a clock at all.

How prayer times are calculated

This is ZindSa's own methodology, written out in public, including the parts that are a convention rather than a citation.

Your kundli on your phone, without giving away your data

Birth date, birth time, birth place. Three of the most identifying facts about a person, handed to an app. Here is exactly what ZindSa does with them, and what it does not claim.