Panchang in Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador Mon 22 Dec 2025

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 24°–36° is the 3rd, Shukla Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:05 here. Dwitiya ended at 00:22, before it. Tritiya ends at 01:43 Tue, when the lead reaches 36°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 19 Dec, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:10, came before Dwitiya ended at 10:52: this day reads Dwitiya.

Cuenca · UTC−5

Sunrise here, 06:05, came after Dwitiya ended at 00:22: this day reads Tritiya.

The night of Sun 21 Dec ran from sunset 18:23 Sun to sunrise 06:05, 11 h 42 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:05 to 18:23, 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, 18:23 to 06:06 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 270°. It leaves at 19:02, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 246.6° + 273.3° = 519.9°, one full turn and 159.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 146°40′–160°00′ is the 12th, Dhruva. It ends at 06:10, then Vyaghata.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila runs until 13:05, when the lead reaches 30°; Garaja until 01:43 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:05 to 06:06 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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 18 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 19 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 29 Mar 2025, 05:57 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 261.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2082; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1947.