Panchang in Diffa, Niger Sun 26 Feb 2012

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 48°–60° is the 5th, Shukla Panchami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:27 here. Chaturthi ended at 05:20, before it. Panchami ends at 07:52 Mon, when the lead reaches 60°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 21 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Panchami began at 05:20, before sunrise at 06:27, and ends at 07:52 Mon, after the next sunrise at 06:27 Mon. Both days read Panchami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:50, came before Chaturthi ended at 09:50: this day reads Chaturthi.

Diffa · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 06:27, came after Chaturthi ended at 05:20: this day reads Panchami.

The night of Sat 25 Feb ran from sunset 18:17 Sat to sunrise 06:27, 12 h 10 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:27 to 18:17, 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, 18:17 to 06:27 Mon, 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 0°. It leaves at 06:25 Mon, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 313° + 1.5° = 314.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 16:44, then Brahma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Panchami is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 18:34, when the lead reaches 54°; Balava until 07:52 Mon.

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

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 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 22 Mar, 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 21 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 3 Apr 2011, 15:32 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 323.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2068; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1933.