Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Fri 4 Oct 1996

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 252°–264° is the 22nd, Krishna Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:35 here. Shashthi ended at 05:34 Thu, before it. Saptami ends at 07:05, when the lead reaches 264°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 27 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 05:34 Thu, before sunrise at 05:35 Thu, and ends at 07:05, after the next sunrise at 05:35. Both days read Saptami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:15, came after Saptami ended at 04:35: this day reads Ashtami.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:35, came before Saptami ended at 07:05: this day reads Saptami.

The night of Thu 3 Oct ran from sunset 17:36 Thu to sunrise 05:35, 11 h 59 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:35 to 17:35, 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, 17:35 to 05:35 Sat, 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 2 at 70°. It leaves at 00:36 Sat, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 167.1° + 70.4° = 237.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 226°40′–240°00′ is the 18th, Variyana. It ends at 10:03, then Parigha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti ended at 18:15 Thu, when the lead reached 258°; Bava runs until 07:05.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:35 to 05:35 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 16 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 12 Oct, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 12 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina here, and Bhadrapada in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 1996, 18:44 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 191.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2053; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1918.