Panchang in Devarshola, Tamil Nadu Fri 22 Mar 2030

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 14:15 on Fri 22 Mar to 11:16 on Sat 23 Mar, so it holds moonrise only on Fri 22 Mar, at 21:14. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Devarshola

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:27 here. Dwitiya ended at 17:22 Thu, before it. Tritiya ends at 14:15, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 19 Mar, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 21 Mar ran from sunset 18:35 Thu to sunrise 06:27, 11 h 52 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:27 to 18:35, 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, 18:35 to 06:26 Sat, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 186°40′. It leaves at 00:52 Sat, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 337.2° + 188.7° = 525.9°, one full turn and 165.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 17:50, then Harshana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 03:48, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 14:15.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:27 to 06:26 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 15 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 3 Apr, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 3 Apr, with the Sun in Meena, begins Chaitra. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Chaitra here, and Phalguna in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 2029, 09:49 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 366.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2086; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1951.