Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Wed 21 Nov 2001

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 72°–84° is the 7th, Shukla Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:28 here. Shashthi ended at 05:48, before it. Saptami ends at 08:06 Thu, when the lead reaches 84°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Nov, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 05:48, before sunrise at 06:28, and ends at 08:06 Thu, after the next sunrise at 06:28 Thu. Both days read Saptami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:48, came before Shashthi ended at 13:18: this day reads Shashthi.

Ipameri · UTC−2

Sunrise here, 06:28, came after Shashthi ended at 05:48: this day reads Saptami.

The night of Tue 20 Nov ran from sunset 19:28 Tue to sunrise 06:28, 11 h 0 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:28 to 19:29, 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 night here, 19:29 to 06:28 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 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′. Shravana spans 280°00′–293°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 286°40′. It leaves at 18:05, for Dhanishtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 215.2° + 287.5° = 502.7°, one full turn and 142.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 133°20′–146°40′ is the 11th, Vriddhi. It ends at 13:43, then Dhruva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 18:54, when the lead reaches 78°; Vanija until 08:06 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:28 to 06:28 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: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 16 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 14 Dec, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

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 Nov, with the Sun in Tula, began Kartika. This Shukla paksha reads Kartika in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 24 Mar 2001, 22:21 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 234.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2058; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1923.