Panchang in Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador Mon 29 May 2028

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, 06:14 here. Panchami ended at 19:56 Sun, before it. Shashthi ends at 17:52, when the lead reaches 72°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 24 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:24, came before Panchami ended at 06:26: this day reads Panchami. Shashthi ends at 04:22 Tue, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Shashthi: it is kshaya.

Cuenca · UTC−5

Sunrise here, 06:14, came after Panchami ended at 19:56 Sun: this day reads Shashthi.

The night of Sun 28 May ran from sunset 18:12 Sun to sunrise 06:14, 12 h 2 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:14 to 18:12, 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 night here, 18:12 to 06:14 Tue, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Ashlesha spans 106°40′–120°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 106°40′. It leaves at 23:16, for Magha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 44.4° + 109.9° = 154.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 146°40′–160°00′ is the 12th, Dhruva. It ends at 15:16, then Vyaghata.

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 runs until 06:55, when the lead reaches 66°; Taitila until 17:52.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:14 to 06:14 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: Vrishabha gives Jyeshtha. The Sun enters Mithuna on 14 Jun, inside the month. The next new moon, 22 Jun, finds it in Mithuna and begins Ashadha.

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 24 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha. This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 2028, 23:31 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 62.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2085; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1950.