Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Thu 10 Mar 2016

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 0°–12° is the 1st, Shukla Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:57 here. Amavasya ended at 09:54 Wed, before it. Pratipada ends at 06:31, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 9 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwitiya began at 06:31 and ended at 03:04 Fri, between the sunrises of 05:57 and 05:56 Fri. Thursday reads Pratipada and Friday reads Tritiya: Dwitiya is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:36, came after Pratipada ended at 04:01: this day reads Dwitiya.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:57, came before Pratipada ended at 06:31: this day reads Pratipada. Dwitiya ends at 03:04 Fri, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Dwitiya: it is kshaya.

The night of Wed 9 Mar ran from sunset 17:57 Wed to sunrise 05:57, 12 h 0 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:57 to 17:57, 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, 17:57 to 05:56 Fri, 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′. Uttara Bhadrapada spans 333°20′–346°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 336°40′. It leaves at 20:50, for Revati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 325.7° + 337.3° = 663°, one full turn and 303°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 11:24, then Shukla.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Kinstughna and the second Bava. Kinstughna ended at 20:14 Wed, when the lead reached 6°; Bava runs until 06:31.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:57 to 05:56 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 7 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 9 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 2015, 17:36 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 350.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2072; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1937.