Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Thu 30 Dec 1976

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 96°–108° is the 9th, Shukla Navami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:04 here. Ashtami ended at 04:52 Wed, before it. Navami ends at 07:23, when the lead reaches 108°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 21 Dec, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Navami began at 04:52 Wed, before sunrise at 06:03 Wed, and ends at 07:23, after the next sunrise at 06:04. Both days read Navami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:13, came after Navami ended at 04:53: this day reads Dashami.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 06:04, came before Navami ended at 07:23: this day reads Navami.

The night of Wed 29 Dec ran from sunset 17:34 Wed to sunrise 06:04, 12 h 30 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:04 to 17:35, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:35 to 06:04 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 0°. It leaves at 04:43 Fri, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 254.8° + 2.2° = 257°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 00:09 Fri, then Siddha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Navami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 18:05 Wed, when the lead reached 102°; Kaulava runs until 07:23.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:04 to 06:04 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 21 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 31 Mar 1976, 01:07 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 268.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2033; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1898.