Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Wed 15 Apr 1998

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 01:54 on Wed 15 Apr to 03:26 on Thu 16 Apr, so it holds moonrise only on Wed 15 Apr, at 20:54. 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: 216°–228° is the 19th, Krishna Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:21 here. Tritiya ended at 01:54, before it. Chaturthi ends at 03:26 Thu, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 11 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:56, came before Tritiya ended at 10:24: this day reads Tritiya.

Ipameri · UTC−3

Sunrise here, 06:21, came after Tritiya ended at 01:54: this day reads Chaturthi.

The night of Tue 14 Apr ran from sunset 18:04 Tue to sunrise 06:21, 12 h 17 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:21 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 Thu, 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′. Anuradha spans 213°20′–226°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 216°40′. It leaves at 20:28, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 1.4° + 219.5° = 220.9°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 16:56, then Variyana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 14:43, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 03:26 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:21 to 06:22 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 13 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 26 Apr, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 26 Apr, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha here, and Chaitra in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 28 Mar 1998, 00:13 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 18° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2055; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1920.