Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Sat 21 Mar 2048

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 60°–72° is the 6th, Shukla Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:50 here. Panchami ended at 05:34 Fri, before it. Shashthi ends at 08:12, when the lead reaches 72°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 14 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 05:34 Fri, before sunrise at 05:51 Fri, and ends at 08:12, after the next sunrise at 05:50. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:23, came after Shashthi ended at 05:42: this day reads Saptami.

Codcod · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:50, came before Shashthi ended at 08:12: this day reads Shashthi.

The night of Fri 20 Mar ran from sunset 17:58 Fri to sunrise 05:50, 11 h 52 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:50 to 17:58, 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, 17:58 to 05:50 Sun, 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′. Rohini spans 40°00′–53°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 46°40′. It leaves at 17:59, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 336.4° + 47.4° = 383.8°, one full turn and 23.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 11:14, then Ayushmana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava ended at 18:52 Fri, when the lead reached 66°; Taitila runs until 08:12.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:50 to 05:50 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 14 Mar 22:27 Sat to 13 Apr 13:19 Mon the Sun stayed in Meena, entering Mesha at 14 Apr 03:17 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Chaitra, before Chaitra 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 Mar, with the Sun in Meena, began Chaitra (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Chaitra (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 14 Mar 2048, 22:27 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 6.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2105; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1970.