Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Wed 17 Aug 2011

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 07:31 on Wed 17 Aug to 09:46 on Thu 18 Aug, so it holds moonrise only on Wed 17 Aug, at 20:14. 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, 05:37 here. Dwitiya ended at 05:36 Tue, before it. Tritiya ends at 07:31, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 14 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Tritiya began at 05:36 Tue, before sunrise at 05:37 Tue, and ends at 07:31, after the next sunrise at 05:37. Both days read Tritiya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:51, came after Tritiya ended at 05:01: this day reads Chaturthi.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:37, came before Tritiya ended at 07:31: this day reads Tritiya.

The night of Tue 16 Aug ran from sunset 18:05 Tue to sunrise 05:37, 11 h 32 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:37 to 18:05, 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, 18:05 to 05:37 Thu, 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′. Uttara Bhadrapada spans 333°20′–346°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 333°20′. It leaves at 05:30 Thu, for Revati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 119.7° + 334.8° = 454.5°, one full turn and 94.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 93°20′–106°40′ is the 8th, Dhriti. It ends at 04:22 Thu, then Shula.

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 18:31 Tue, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 07:31.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:37 to 05:37 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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 17 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 29 Aug, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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 29 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada here, and Shravana in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 3 Apr 2011, 22:32 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 130.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2068; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1933.