Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Sun 18 Mar 1990

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:52 here. Panchami ended at 04:50 Sat, before it. Shashthi ends at 07:18, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 11 Mar, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 04:50 Sat, before sunrise at 05:53 Sat, and ends at 07:18, after the next sunrise at 05:52. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:28, came after Shashthi ended at 04:48: this day reads Saptami.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:52, came before Shashthi ended at 07:18: this day reads Shashthi.

The night of Sat 17 Mar ran from sunset 17:58 Sat to sunrise 05:52, 11 h 54 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:52 to 17:58, 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 night here, 17:58 to 05:52 Mon, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Anuradha spans 213°20′–226°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 223°20′. It leaves at 09:54, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 333.3° + 224.7° = 558°, one full turn and 198°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 09:37, then Siddhi.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 18:05 Sat, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 07:18.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:52 to 05:52 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 27 Mar, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 27 Mar, with the Sun in Meena, begins Chaitra. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Chaitra here, and Phalguna in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 6 Apr 1989, 11:32 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 340.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2046; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1911.