Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Mon 9 Oct 1978

Durga Ashtami follows the tithi at sunrise. Ashtami begins at 06:41 on Mon 9 Oct, after that sunrise, and ends at 04:32 on Tue 10 Oct, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Mon 9 Oct. No text giving Durga Ashtami’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Durga Ashtami: every date in Codcod

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 72°–84° is the 7th, Shukla Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:35 here. Shashthi ended at 08:42 Sun, before it. Saptami ends at 06:41, when the lead reaches 84°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 2 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 06:41 and ended at 04:32 Tue, between the sunrises of 05:35 and 05:35 Tue. Monday reads Saptami and Tuesday reads Navami: Ashtami is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:18, came after Saptami ended at 04:11: this day reads Ashtami.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:35, came before Saptami ended at 06:41: this day reads Saptami. Ashtami ends at 04:32 Tue, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Ashtami: it is kshaya.

The night of Sun 8 Oct ran from sunset 17:33 Sun to sunrise 05:35, 12 h 2 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:35 to 17:33, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:33 to 05:35 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 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′. Purva Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 253°20′. It leaves at 01:12 Tue, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 171.7° + 255.1° = 426.8°, one full turn and 66.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 02:31 Tue, then Sukarma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 19:43 Sun, when the lead reached 78°; Vanija runs until 06:41.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:35 to 05:35 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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 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 2 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: 7 Apr 1978, 23:15 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 177.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2035; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1900.