Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Thu 25 Dec 2003

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 24°–36° is the 3rd, Shukla Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:37 here. Dwitiya ended at 01:07, before it. Tritiya ends at 22:28, when the lead reaches 36°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 23 Dec, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:11, came before Dwitiya ended at 08:37: this day reads Dwitiya. Tritiya ends at 05:58 Fri, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Tritiya: it is kshaya.

Ipameri · UTC−2

Sunrise here, 06:37, came after Dwitiya ended at 01:07: this day reads Tritiya.

The night of Wed 24 Dec ran from sunset 19:48 Wed to sunrise 06:37, 10 h 49 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 43 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:37 to 19:48, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 38 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:48 to 06:37 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 21 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 273°20′. It leaves at 12:39, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 249.2° + 276.3° = 525.5°, one full turn and 165.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 18:39, then Harshana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila runs until 11:43, when the lead reaches 30°; Garaja until 22:28.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:37 to 06:37 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 21 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 23 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 1 Apr 2003, 16:18 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 261.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2060; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1925.