Panchang in Diffa, Niger Sun 23 Sep 2018

Anant Chaturdashi follows the tithi at sunrise. Chaturdashi runs from 01:13 on Sun 23 Sep to 02:48 on Mon 24 Sep, so it holds sunrise only on Sun 23 Sep, at 05:58. No text giving Anant Chaturdashi’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Anant Chaturdashi: every date in Diffa

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 156°–168° is the 14th, Shukla Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:58 here. Trayodashi ended at 01:13, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 02:48 Mon, when the lead reaches 168°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 9 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Sat 22 Sep ran from sunset 18:05 Sat to sunrise 05:58, 11 h 53 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:58 to 18:05, 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 night here, 18:05 to 05:58 Mon, 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 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 3 at 313°20′. It leaves at 17:19, for Purva Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 156° + 314.2° = 470.2°, one full turn and 110.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 23:42, then Ganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 14:04, when the lead reaches 162°; Vanija until 02:48 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:58 to 05:58 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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 9 Oct, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 9 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada. This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2018, 14:11 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 183.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.