Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Sat 15 Apr 1972

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, 06:22 here. Pratipada ended at 13:36 Fri, before it. Dwitiya ends at 09:47, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 13 Apr, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Tritiya began at 09:47 and ended at 06:15 Sun, between the sunrises of 06:22 and 06:22 Sun. Saturday reads Dwitiya and Sunday reads Chaturthi: Tritiya is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Fri 14 Apr ran from sunset 18:04 Fri to sunrise 06:22, 12 h 18 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:22 to 18:03, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:03 to 06:22 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 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 4 at 23°20′. It leaves at 10:34, for Krittika.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 2° + 24° = 26°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 07:17, then Ayushmana.

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 23:40 Fri, when the lead reached 18°; Kaulava runs until 09:47.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:22 to 06:22 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 13 Apr 17:30 Thu to 13 May 01:08 Sat the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 14 May 01:26 Sun, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha 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 Apr, with the Sun in Mesha, began Vaishakha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 1972, 08:34 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 30.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2029; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1894.