Panchang in Diffa, Niger Wed 14 Jan 2032

Lohri’s bonfire is lit on the evening before Makar Sankranti. The Sun enters Makara at 23:24, and Makar Sankranti is on Thu 15 Jan: Wed 14 Jan. No text giving Lohri’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Lohri: 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, 06:35 here. Pratipada ended at 17:14 Tue, before it. Dwitiya ends at 13:26, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 12 Jan, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Tue 13 Jan ran from sunset 18:00 Tue to sunrise 06:35, 12 h 35 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:35 to 18:01, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 25 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:01 to 06:36 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 34 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′. Shravana spans 280°00′–293°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 286°40′. It leaves at 13:03, for Dhanishtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 269.3° + 289.2° = 558.5°, one full turn and 198.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 08:47, then Siddhi.

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 ended at 03:19, when the lead reached 18°; Kaulava runs until 13:26.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:35 to 06:36 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 11 Feb, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 12 Jan, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 23 Mar 2031, 04:49 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 291.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2088; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1953.