Panchang in Chahārbāgh, Alborz Province, Iran Mon 9 Mar 2026

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:26 here. Panchami ended at 19:11 Sun, before it. Shashthi ends at 21:27, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 3 Mar, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sun 8 Mar ran from sunset 18:07 Sun to sunrise 06:26, 12 h 19 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:26 to 18:08, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:08 to 06:24 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Vishakha spans 200°00′–213°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 206°40′. It leaves at 14:11, for Anuradha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 324.3° + 209.5° = 533.8°, one full turn and 173.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 06:21 Tue, then Vajra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 08:17, when the lead reaches 246°; Vanija until 21:27.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:26 to 06:24 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the rashi the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 Mar, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

A purnimanta month runs from full moon to full moon, so its waning half comes first. It shares its name with the amanta month that its second half falls in: the new moon of 19 Mar, with the Sun in Meena, begins Chaitra. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Chaitra here, and Phalguna in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 29 Mar 2025, 14:27 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 339.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2082; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1947.