Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Thu 29 Mar 1979

Ghatasthapana is done in pratahkala, the first fifth of the day. Pratipada runs from 10:59 on Wed 28 Mar to 08:18 on Thu 29 Mar, so only Thursday’s pratahkala (05:46–08:12) falls within it. No text giving Chaitra Navratri · Ghatasthapana’s time was found; pratahkala is Tithika’s convention.

Chaitra Navratri: every date in Codcod

Vikram Samvat 2036 begins on the day Chaitra Shukla Pratipada holds sunrise: Thu 29 Mar, at 05:46. Pratipada lasts until 08:18.

Nav Samvatsar: every date in Codcod

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 0°–12° is the 1st, Shukla Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:46 here. Amavasya ended at 10:59 Wed, before it. Pratipada ends at 08:18, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 28 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:15, came after Pratipada ended at 05:48: this day reads Dwitiya.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:46, came before Pratipada ended at 08:18: this day reads Pratipada.

The night of Wed 28 Mar ran from sunset 17:57 Wed to sunrise 05:46, 11 h 49 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:46 to 17:57, 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 night here, 17:57 to 05:46 Fri, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 353°20′. It leaves at 14:44, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 344.1° + 354.6° = 698.7°, one full turn and 338.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 333°20′–346°40′ is the 26th, Indra. It ends at 18:16, then Vaidhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Kinstughna and the second Bava. Kinstughna ended at 21:36 Wed, when the lead reached 6°; Bava runs until 08:18.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:46 to 05:46 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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 14 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 26 Apr, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 28 Mar, with the Sun in Meena, began Chaitra. This Shukla paksha reads Chaitra in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 28 Mar 1979, 10:59 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 0.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2036; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1901.