Panchang in Diffa, Niger Thu 15 Mar 2029

Vikram Samvat 2086 begins on the day Chaitra Shukla Pratipada holds sunrise: Thu 15 Mar, at 06:16. Pratipada lasts until 07:43 Fri.

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The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 0°–12° is the 1st, Shukla Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:16 here. Amavasya ended at 05:19, before it. Pratipada ends at 07:43 Fri, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 05:19, before sunrise at 06:16, and ends at 07:43 Fri, after the next sunrise at 06:16 Fri. Both days read Pratipada: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:30, came before Amavasya ended at 09:49: this day reads Amavasya.

Diffa · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 06:16, came after Amavasya ended at 05:19: this day reads Pratipada.

The night of Wed 14 Mar ran from sunset 18:19 Wed to sunrise 06:16, 11 h 57 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:16 to 18:20, 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, 18:20 to 06:16 Fri, 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′. Purva Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 330°. It leaves at 10:49, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 330.6° + 331.1° = 661.7°, one full turn and 301.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 15:28, then Shukla.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Kinstughna and the second Bava. Kinstughna runs until 18:30, when the lead reaches 6°; Bava until 07:43 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:16 to 06:16 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 Mar 05:19 to 13 Apr 22:40 Fri the Sun stayed in Meena, entering Mesha at 13 Apr 23:24 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Chaitra, before Chaitra itself.

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 15 Mar, with the Sun in Meena, began Chaitra (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Chaitra (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 2029, 05:19. Since then the Sun has moved 0° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2086; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1951.