Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Fri 21 Mar 2003

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 08:13 on Fri 21 Mar to 05:07 on Sat 22 Mar, so it holds moonrise only on Fri 21 Mar, at 20:51. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Codcod

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:51 here. Dwitiya ended at 11:36 Thu, before it. Tritiya ends at 08:13, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 18 Mar, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturthi began at 08:13 and ended at 05:07 Sat, between the sunrises of 05:51 and 05:50 Sat. Friday reads Tritiya and Saturday reads Panchami: Chaturthi is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:24, came after Tritiya ended at 05:43: this day reads Chaturthi.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:51, came before Tritiya ended at 08:13: this day reads Tritiya. Chaturthi ends at 05:07 Sat, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Chaturthi: it is kshaya.

The night of Thu 20 Mar ran from sunset 17:58 Thu to sunrise 05:51, 11 h 53 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:51 to 17:58, 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, 17:58 to 05:50 Sat, 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 190°. It leaves at 21:04, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 336° + 190.6° = 526.6°, one full turn and 166.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 16:05, then Harshana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 21:53 Thu, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 08:13.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:51 to 05:50 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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 15 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 2 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 2 Apr, with the Sun in Meena, begins Chaitra. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Chaitra here, and Phalguna in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 13 Apr 2002, 03:21 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 337.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2059; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1924.