Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Fri 20 Mar 1964

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 72°–84° is the 7th, Shukla Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:16 here. Shashthi ended at 08:45 Thu, before it. Saptami ends at 06:37, when the lead reaches 84°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 13 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 06:37 and ended at 04:44 Sat, between the sunrises of 06:16 and 06:16 Sat. Friday reads Saptami and Saturday reads Navami: Ashtami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 19 Mar ran from sunset 18:24 Thu to sunrise 06:16, 11 h 52 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:16 to 18:23, 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, 18:23 to 06:16 Sat, 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′. Mrigashira spans 53°20′–66°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 60°. It leaves at 17:13, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 336.4° + 60.3° = 396.7°, one full turn and 36.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 26°40′–40°00′ is the 3rd, Ayushmana. It ends at 11:31, then Saubhagya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 19:39 Thu, when the lead reached 78°; Vanija runs until 06:37.

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

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 13 Mar 23:13 Fri to 12 Apr 09:37 Sun the Sun stayed in Meena, entering Mesha at 13 Apr 03:22 Mon, 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 13 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: 13 Mar 1964, 23:13 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 6.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2021; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1886.