Panchang in Diffa, Niger Sun 11 Jul 2021

Rath Yatra follows the tithi at sunrise. Dwitiya runs from 03:17 on Sun 11 Jul to 03:49 on Mon 12 Jul, so it holds sunrise only on Sun 11 Jul, at 05:49. No text giving Rath Yatra’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Rath Yatra: every date in Diffa

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 12°–24° is the 2nd, Shukla Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:49 here. Pratipada ended at 03:17, before it. Dwitiya ends at 03:49 Mon, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 10 Jul, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:31, came before Pratipada ended at 07:47: this day reads Pratipada.

Diffa · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 05:49, came after Pratipada ended at 03:17: this day reads Dwitiya.

The night of Sat 10 Jul ran from sunset 18:40 Sat to sunrise 05:49, 11 h 9 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:49 to 18:40, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:40 to 05:49 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 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′. Pushya spans 93°20′–106°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 96°40′. It leaves at 21:51, for Ashlesha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 85° + 98.2° = 183.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 12:00, then Vajra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava runs until 15:37, when the lead reaches 18°; Kaulava until 03:49 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:49 to 05:49 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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 8 Aug, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 10 Jul, with the Sun in Mithuna, began Ashadha. This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 12 Apr 2021, 03:30 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 86.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2078; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1943.