Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Tue 3 Aug 2004

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 06:56 on Tue 3 Aug to 05:30 on Wed 4 Aug, so it holds moonrise only on Tue 3 Aug, at 21:04. 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: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:38 here. Dwitiya ended at 09:06 Mon, before it. Tritiya ends at 06:56, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturthi began at 06:56 and ended at 05:30 Wed, between the sunrises of 06:38 and 06:37 Wed. Tuesday reads Tritiya and Wednesday reads Panchami: Chaturthi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Mon 2 Aug ran from sunset 17:59 Mon to sunrise 06:38, 12 h 39 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:38 to 17:59, 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 night here, 17:59 to 06:37 Wed, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Purva Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 320°. It leaves at 00:07 Wed, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 107.5° + 323.3° = 430.8°, one full turn and 70.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 21:39, then Sukarma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 19:56 Mon, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 06:56.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:38 to 06:37 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Jul 08:23 Sat to 15 Aug 22:23 Sun the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 16 Aug 08:18 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 2004, 19:41 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 130.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2061; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1926.