Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Sat 18 Feb 1995

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 07:08 on Sat 18 Feb to 04:34 on Sun 19 Feb, so it holds moonrise only on Sat 18 Feb, at 21:57. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Ipameri

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:08 here. Dwitiya ended at 08:29 Fri, before it. Tritiya ends at 07:08, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 15 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturthi began at 07:08 and ended at 04:34 Sun, between the sunrises of 07:08 and 06:08 Sun. Saturday reads Tritiya and Sunday reads Panchami: Chaturthi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Fri 17 Feb ran from sunset 19:45 Fri to sunrise 07:08, 11 h 23 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:08 to 19:45, 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 night here, 19:45 to 06:08 Sun, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 160°. It leaves at 02:44 Sun, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 305.4° + 161.4° = 466.8°, one full turn and 106.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 03:18 Sun, then Ganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 19:51 Fri, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 07:08.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:08 to 06:08 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 12 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Mar, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 1 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna here, and Magha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 10 Apr 1994, 21:17 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 308.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2051; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1916.