Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Thu 18 Apr 1991

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 48°–60° is the 5th, Shukla Panchami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:22 here. Chaturthi ended at 05:45, before it. Panchami ends at 03:06 Fri, when the lead reaches 60°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 14 Apr, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:53, came before Chaturthi ended at 14:15: this day reads Chaturthi.

Ipameri · UTC−3

Sunrise here, 06:22, came after Chaturthi ended at 05:45: this day reads Panchami.

The night of Wed 17 Apr ran from sunset 18:02 Wed to sunrise 06:22, 12 h 20 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:22 to 18:01, 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, 18:01 to 06:22 Fri, 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′. Rohini spans 40°00′–53°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 50°. It leaves at 07:49, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 4.1° + 52.5° = 56.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 53°20′–66°40′ is the 5th, Shobhana. It ends at 22:03, then Atiganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Panchami is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 16:24, when the lead reaches 54°; Balava until 03:06 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:22 to 06:22 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 14 Apr 16:37 Sun to 14 May 01:35 Tue the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 14 May 22:25 Tue, 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 14 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: 16 Mar 1991, 05:10 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 32.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2048; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1913.