Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Mon 26 Aug 2024

Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 06:09 on Mon 26 Aug to 04:50 on Tue 27 Aug, so only Monday night’s nishitha (23:25–00:12 Tue) falls within it. Every reading takes that day.

Janmashtami: every date in Codcod

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 08:01 Sun, before it. Saptami ends at 06:09, when the lead reaches 264°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 20 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 06:09 and ended at 04:50 Tue, between the sunrises of 05:37 and 05:37 Tue. Monday reads Saptami and Tuesday reads Navami: Ashtami is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:56, came after Saptami ended at 03:39: this day reads Ashtami.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:37, came before Saptami ended at 06:09: this day reads Saptami. Ashtami ends at 04:50 Tue, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Ashtami: it is kshaya.

The night of Sun 25 Aug ran from sunset 18:00 Sun to sunrise 05:37, 11 h 37 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:37 to 17:59, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 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 05:37 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 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′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 30°. It leaves at 18:25, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 129° + 32.7° = 161.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 00:46 Tue, then Harshana.

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 19:01 Sun, when the lead reached 258°; Bava runs until 06:09.

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

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 16 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 3 Sep, 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 3 Sep, 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: 9 Apr 2024, 02:20 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 133.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.