Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Wed 8 Mar 2000

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 12°–24° is the 2nd, Shukla Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:58 here. Pratipada ended at 12:58 Tue, before it. Dwitiya ends at 12:11, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 6 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Tue 7 Mar ran from sunset 17:57 Tue to sunrise 05:58, 12 h 1 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:58 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 05:57 Thu, 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′. Uttara Bhadrapada spans 333°20′–346°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 343°20′. It leaves at 09:44, for Revati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 323.8° + 344.5° = 668.3°, one full turn and 308.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 01:13 Thu, then Brahma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 00:38, when the lead reached 18°; Kaulava runs until 12:11.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:58 to 05:57 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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 5 Apr, 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 6 Mar, 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: 18 Mar 1999, 02:47 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 350.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2056; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1921.