Panchang in Davinópolis, Maranhão, Brazil Wed 6 Jun 2018

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 264°–276° is the 23rd, Krishna Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:13 here. Saptami ended at 02:45, before it. Ashtami ends at 04:07 Thu, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:23, came before Saptami ended at 11:15: this day reads Saptami.

Davinópolis · UTC−3

Sunrise here, 06:13, came after Saptami ended at 02:45: this day reads Ashtami.

The night of Tue 5 Jun ran from sunset 18:02 Tue to sunrise 06:13, 12 h 11 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:13 to 18:02, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:02 to 06:14 Thu, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Shatabhisha spans 306°40′–320°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 316°40′. It leaves at 11:50, for Purva Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 51.5° + 317.1° = 368.6°, one full turn and 8.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 14:43, then Priti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava runs until 15:31, when the lead reaches 270°; Kaulava until 04:07 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:13 to 06:14 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 May 08:47 Tue to 13 Jun 16:43 Wed the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 03:06 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha 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 13 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) here, and Jyeshtha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2018, 10:11 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 78.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.