Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Wed 24 Mar 1999

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 72°–84° is the 7th, Shukla Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:49 here. Shashthi ended at 09:19 Tue, before it. Saptami ends at 07:11, when the lead reaches 84°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 18 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 07:11 and ended at 05:31 Thu, between the sunrises of 05:49 and 05:48 Thu. Wednesday reads Saptami and Thursday reads Navami: Ashtami is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:21, came after Saptami ended at 04:41: this day reads Ashtami.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:49, came before Saptami ended at 07:11: this day reads Saptami. Ashtami ends at 05:31 Thu, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Ashtami: it is kshaya.

The night of Tue 23 Mar ran from sunset 17:58 Tue to sunrise 05:49, 11 h 51 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:49 to 17:58, 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, 17:58 to 05:48 Thu, 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′. Mrigashira spans 53°20′–66°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 60°. It leaves at 13:25, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 339° + 62.2° = 401.2°, one full turn and 41.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 40°00′–53°20′ is the 4th, Saubhagya. It ends at 01:20 Thu, then Shobhana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 20:12 Tue, when the lead reached 78°; Vanija runs until 07:11.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:49 to 05:48 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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 14 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 16 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 18 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: 18 Mar 1999, 02:47 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 6.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2056; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1921.