Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Mon 19 Oct 1998

Lakshmi Puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Amavasya runs from 05:39 on Mon 19 Oct to 08:09 on Tue 20 Oct, so only Monday’s pradosha (19:14–21:31) falls within it. Every reading takes that day.

Lakshmi Puja muhurat: pradosha, 19:14–21:31. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 21:10 to 21:31.

Diwali: every date in Ipameri

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya holds both sunrises, 06:41 on Mon 19 Oct and 06:40 on Tue 20 Oct. Over two sunrises the Nirnayasindhu takes the first: Mon 19 Oct. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Ipameri

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:41 here. Chaturdashi ended at 05:39, before it. Amavasya ends at 08:09 Tue, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 5 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Amavasya began at 05:39, before sunrise at 06:41, and ends at 08:09 Tue, after the next sunrise at 06:40 Tue. Both days read Amavasya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:24, came before Chaturdashi ended at 13:09: this day reads Chaturdashi.

Ipameri · UTC−2

Sunrise here, 06:41, came after Chaturdashi ended at 05:39: this day reads Amavasya.

The night of Sun 18 Oct ran from sunset 19:14 Sun to sunrise 06:41, 11 h 27 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:41 to 19:14, 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, 19:14 to 06:40 Tue, 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 4 at 170°. It leaves at 12:38, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 181.9° + 170.4° = 352.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 21:02, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada runs until 18:54, when the lead reaches 354°; Nagava until 08:09 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:41 to 06:40 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 20 Oct, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 20 Oct, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika here, and Ashwina 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 198.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2055; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1920.