Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Thu 20 Jun 1996

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 36°–48° is the 4th, Shukla Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:42 here. Tritiya ended at 05:06 Wed, before it. Chaturthi ends at 07:33, when the lead reaches 48°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturthi began at 05:06 Wed, before sunrise at 06:42 Wed, and ends at 07:33, after the next sunrise at 06:42. Both days read Chaturthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 19 Jun ran from sunset 17:46 Wed to sunrise 06:42, 12 h 56 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:42 to 17:46, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:46 to 06:42 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 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′. Ashlesha spans 106°40′–120°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 110°. It leaves at 20:36, for Magha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 65.5° + 113.1° = 178.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 21:42, then Vajra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 18:19 Wed, when the lead reached 42°; Vishti runs until 07:33.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:42 to 06:42 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 15 Jun 22:35 Sat to 15 Jul 13:14 Mon the Sun stayed in Mithuna, entering Karka at 15 Jul 22:40 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashadha, before Ashadha 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 Jun, with the Sun in Mithuna, began Ashadha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 1996, 07:44 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 90.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2053; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1918.