Namaskaram, I am in Western part of Canada and want to know how to do sankalpam for Canada.
Could someone help me on this ? Please share if there are any documents available ? Instead of Bharatha Varshey Bharatha Kandey I have to tell the one for Canada. Please let me know. thank you.
Pl check my reply to one person from UK
Inspite of many contrary opinions, my guidance is Kanchi Mahaperiyava Shri Chandrasekhara Saraswathi swamigal who has cleared Brahmins to perform all rituals in other countries using appropriate sankalpam also Ahobila Mutt USA. . I usually follow the site Ahobla Mutt
Link :
https://www.ahobilamutt.org/us/services/sankalpam/sankalpam.asp
Just enter the City name and it will give you the sankalapam for that city wrt local time.
for example I used Oregon
Displaying results for oregon@ lat: 43.8041334, lng: -120.5542012 in America/Los_Angeles timezone
Sankalpam for oregon on 01st Aug 2020
At 05:41 PM PDT and valid through 07:38 PM:
sArvarI nAma samvathsarE, dakshiNAyaNE,
grIshma rithou,kataka mAsE,
shukla pakshE, chaturdasyAm shubha thithou,
sthira vAsara, poorvAshAdA nakshatra yukthAyAm...
Sunrise: 05:57
Sunset: 20:19
The Bhagavatham recognises 7 kandams in the universe created by Brahma (and Lord Krishna) and I see no harm in perforimg our rituals wherever we are.
to get the first part of sankalpam use (instead of bharatha varshe etc)
Ref : Hinduism stack exchange
For USA and Canada : krouncha dvIpE, ramaNaka varshE, aindra kaNDE, prasAnta sAgarE (pacific ocean) west coast.
for UK : SAlmali dvIpE, vinyascita paschima dhigbhAgE samudra madyasthita brihadharanya kshetrE
Some anomalies: American Indians might think Krouncha as north america but it is pushkara dweepa.
Salmali could be Australia for the reason that tall pine trees (salmali) are found between Indonesia and Australia (also described by Sugreeva in Ramayana)
Similar way : plaksha dwIpa is South America
Saka is West Europe (towards atlantic ocean, like UK, Greenland, Ireland (has skanda connection from tamilnadu. try to find meaning for common tamil name Sendhil/Senthil, which mean red one and Irish people have read skin+hair), Iceland etc.
Kusa dwIpa is oceania (smaller islands of pacific ocean)
If you are not sure, just avoid place details and only follow year, ayana, maasam (month), tithi, vaaram (weekday) etc and continue.