Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Tue 25 Sep 2001

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 84°–96° is the 8th, Shukla Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:36 here. Saptami ended at 05:01 Mon, before it. Ashtami ends at 06:11, when the lead reaches 96°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 05:01 Mon, before sunrise at 05:36 Mon, and ends at 06:11, after the next sunrise at 05:36. Both days read Ashtami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:10, came after Ashtami ended at 03:41: this day reads Navami.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:36, came before Ashtami ended at 06:11: this day reads Ashtami.

The night of Mon 24 Sep ran from sunset 17:42 Mon to sunrise 05:36, 11 h 54 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:36 to 17:41, 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, 17:41 to 05:36 Wed, 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′. Purva Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 253°20′. It leaves at 07:07 Wed, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 158° + 253.7° = 411.7°, one full turn and 51.7°. 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 08:26, then Shobhana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti ended at 17:30 Mon, when the lead reached 90°; Bava runs until 06:11.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:36 to 05:36 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Sep 18:27 Mon to 17 Oct 03:23 Wed the Sun stayed in Kanya, entering Tula at 17 Oct 12:37 Wed, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashwina, before Ashwina itself.

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 17 Sep, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 2001, 09:21 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 177.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2058; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1923.