Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Fri 21 Oct 1977

Dussehra’s rites are done in aparahna, the fourth fifth of the day. Dashami runs from 06:28 on Fri 21 Oct to 05:31 on Sat 22 Oct, so only Friday’s aparahna (12:42–15:05) falls within it.

Dussehra: every date in Codcod

Maha Navami follows the tithi at sunrise. Navami runs from 07:53 on Thu 20 Oct to 06:28 on Fri 21 Oct, so it holds sunrise only on Fri 21 Oct, at 05:36. No text giving Maha Navami’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Maha Navami: every date in Codcod

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, 05:36 here. Ashtami ended at 07:53 Thu, before it. Navami ends at 06:28, when the lead reaches 108°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 13 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dashami began at 06:28 and ended at 05:31 Sat, between the sunrises of 05:36 and 05:36 Sat. Friday reads Navami and Saturday reads Ekadashi: Dashami is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:25, came after Navami ended at 03:58: this day reads Dashami.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:36, came before Navami ended at 06:28: this day reads Navami. Dashami ends at 05:31 Sat, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Dashami: it is kshaya.

The night of Thu 20 Oct ran from sunset 17:27 Thu to sunrise 05:36, 12 h 9 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:36 to 17:27, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:27 to 05:36 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 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′. Shravana spans 280°00′–293°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 290°. It leaves at 09:03, for Dhanishtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 183.8° + 291.4° = 475.2°, one full turn and 115.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 13:28, then Ganda.

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 19:07 Thu, when the lead reached 102°; Kaulava runs until 06:28.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:36 to 05:36 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 11 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 13 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina. This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 1977, 02:32 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 208.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2034; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1899.