Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Sat 8 Sep 2012

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 252°–264° is the 22nd, Krishna Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:37 here. Shashthi ended at 05:23 Fri, before it. Saptami ends at 07:59, when the lead reaches 264°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 05:23 Fri, before sunrise at 05:37 Fri, and ends at 07:59, after the next sunrise at 05:37. Both days read Saptami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:02, came after Saptami ended at 05:29: this day reads Ashtami.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:37, came before Saptami ended at 07:59: this day reads Saptami.

The night of Fri 7 Sep ran from sunset 17:52 Fri to sunrise 05:37, 11 h 45 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:37 to 17:52, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:52 to 05:37 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 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′. Rohini spans 40°00′–53°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 43°20′. It leaves at 23:26, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 141.6° + 44.5° = 186.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 06:34, then Vajra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti ended at 18:41 Fri, when the lead reached 258°; Bava runs until 07:59.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:37 to 05:37 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Aug 23:54 Fri to 16 Sep 10:10 Sun the Sun stayed in Simha, entering Kanya at 16 Sep 20:24 Sun, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Bhadrapada, before Bhadrapada 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 16 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada (Adhik) here, and Bhadrapada (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2012, 22:37 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 163.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2069; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1934.