Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Thu 29 Feb 1996

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 108°–120° is the 10th, Shukla Dashami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:02 here. Navami ended at 05:14 Wed, before it. Dashami ends at 07:45, when the lead reaches 120°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 19 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dashami began at 05:14 Wed, before sunrise at 06:02 Wed, and ends at 07:45, after the next sunrise at 06:02. Both days read Dashami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:47, came after Dashami ended at 05:15: this day reads Ekadashi.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 06:02, came before Dashami ended at 07:45: this day reads Dashami.

The night of Wed 28 Feb ran from sunset 17:57 Wed to sunrise 06:02, 12 h 5 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:02 to 17:57, 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, 17:57 to 06:01 Fri, 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′. Ardra spans 66°40′–80°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 73°20′. It leaves at 16:06, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 315.8° + 75° = 390.8°, one full turn and 30.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 26°40′–40°00′ is the 3rd, Ayushmana. It ends at 23:09, then Saubhagya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dashami is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 18:29 Wed, when the lead reached 114°; Garaja runs until 07:45.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:02 to 06:01 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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 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 19 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 31 Mar 1995, 10:08 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 329.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2052; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1917.