Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Thu 29 Apr 2010

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 180°–192° is the 16th, Krishna Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:30 here. Purnima ended at 20:18 Wed, before it. Pratipada ends at 18:41, when the lead reaches 192°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 28 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 28 Apr ran from sunset 17:58 Wed to sunrise 05:30, 11 h 32 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:30 to 17:59, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:59 to 05:29 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 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 4 at 196°40′. It leaves at 06:28, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 14.5° + 199.4° = 213.9°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 02:19 Fri, then Variyana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava runs until 07:25, when the lead reaches 186°; Kaulava until 18:41.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:30 to 05:29 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 14 Apr 20:28 Wed to 14 May 09:04 Fri the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 15 May 06:16 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha 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 14 May, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) here, and Vaishakha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 16 Mar 2010, 05:01 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 43.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2067; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1932.