Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Sun 8 Aug 1909

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 264°–276° is the 23rd, Krishna Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:36 here. Saptami ended at 22:05 Sat, before it. Ashtami ends at 20:21, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:45, came before Saptami ended at 06:35: this day reads Saptami. Ashtami ends at 04:51 Mon, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Ashtami: it is kshaya.

Ipameri · UTC−3

Sunrise here, 06:36, came after Saptami ended at 22:05 Sat: this day reads Ashtami.

The night of Sat 7 Aug ran from sunset 18:00 Sat to sunrise 06:36, 12 h 36 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:36 to 18:00, 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, 18:00 to 06:35 Mon, 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′. Bharani spans 13°20′–26°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 20°. It leaves at 16:04, for Krittika.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 112.6° + 21.2° = 133.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 133°20′–146°40′ is the 11th, Vriddhi. It ends at 03:34 Mon, then Dhruva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava runs until 09:09, when the lead reaches 270°; Kaulava until 20:21.

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

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Jul 07:44 Sat to 15 Aug 20:54 Sun the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 15 Aug 00:05 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 1909, 17:11 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 134.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1966; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1831.