Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Wed 20 Jan 1988

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, 06:10 here. Amavasya ended at 13:25 Tue, before it. Pratipada ends at 09:39, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 19 Jan, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwitiya began at 09:39 and ended at 05:59 Thu, between the sunrises of 06:10 and 06:10 Thu. Wednesday reads Pratipada and Thursday reads Tritiya: Dwitiya is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:14, came after Pratipada ended at 07:09: this day reads Dwitiya.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 06:10, came before Pratipada ended at 09:39: this day reads Pratipada. Dwitiya ends at 05:59 Thu, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Dwitiya: it is kshaya.

The night of Tue 19 Jan ran from sunset 17:45 Tue to sunrise 06:10, 12 h 25 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:10 to 17:45, 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, 17:45 to 06:10 Thu, 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′. Shravana spans 280°00′–293°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 283°20′. It leaves at 18:50, for Dhanishtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 275.4° + 285.3° = 560.7°, one full turn and 200.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 200°00′–213°20′ is the 16th, Siddhi. It ends at 00:54 Thu, then Vyatipata.

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 23:32 Tue, when the lead reached 6°; Bava runs until 09:39.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:10 to 06:10 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 13 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 17 Feb, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, began Magha. This Shukla paksha reads Magha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 29 Mar 1987, 20:45 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 290.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2044; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1909.