Panchang in Diffa, Niger Sat 17 Jun 2023

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 04:42 on Sat 17 Jun to 05:37 on Sun 18 Jun, so it holds sunrise only on Sat 17 Jun, at 05:43. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Diffa

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:43 here. Chaturdashi ended at 04:42, before it. Amavasya ends at 05:37 Sun, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 4 Jun, 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 Chaturdashi ended at 09:12: this day reads Chaturdashi.

Diffa · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 05:43, came after Chaturdashi ended at 04:42: this day reads Amavasya.

The night of Fri 16 Jun ran from sunset 18:37 Fri to sunrise 05:43, 11 h 6 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:43 to 18:37, 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, 18:37 to 05:43 Sun, 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′. Rohini spans 40°00′–53°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 50°. It leaves at 11:55, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 61.6° + 50.1° = 111.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 20:31, then Ganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada runs until 17:06, when the lead reaches 354°; Nagava until 05:37 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:43 to 05:43 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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: Vrishabha gives Jyeshtha. The Sun enters Mithuna on 15 Jun, inside the month. The next new moon, 18 Jun, finds it in Mithuna and begins Ashadha.

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 18 Jun, with the Sun in Mithuna, begins Ashadha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashadha here, and Jyeshtha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 2023, 18:23 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 85° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.