Panchang in Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador Mon 1 Jan 2024

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:10 here. Panchami ended at 03:58, before it. Shashthi ends at 06:41 Tue, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 26 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 03:58, before sunrise at 06:10, and ends at 06:41 Tue, after the next sunrise at 06:11 Tue. 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, 07:13, came before Panchami ended at 14:28: this day reads Panchami.

Cuenca · UTC−5

Sunrise here, 06:10, came after Panchami ended at 03:58: this day reads Shashthi.

The night of Sun 31 Dec ran from sunset 18:27 Sun to sunrise 06:10, 11 h 43 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:10 to 18:28, 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, 18:28 to 06:11 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′. Purva Phalguni spans 133°20′–146°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 136°40′. It leaves at 01:12 Tue, for Uttara Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 256.3° + 137.3° = 393.6°, one full turn and 33.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 26°40′–40°00′ is the 3rd, Ayushmana. It ends at 18:05, then Saubhagya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 17:19, when the lead reaches 246°; Vanija until 06:41 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:10 to 06:11 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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 16 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 11 Jan, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 11 Jan, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 2023, 12:23 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 279.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.