Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Wed 23 May 2007

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 84°–96° is the 8th, Shukla Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:33 here. Saptami ended at 05:23, before it. Ashtami ends at 06:52 Thu, when the lead reaches 96°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 16 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 05:23, before sunrise at 06:33, and ends at 06:52 Thu, after the next sunrise at 06:33 Thu. Both days read Ashtami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:26, came before Saptami ended at 13:53: this day reads Saptami.

Ipameri · UTC−3

Sunrise here, 06:33, came after Saptami ended at 05:23: this day reads Ashtami.

The night of Tue 22 May ran from sunset 17:45 Tue to sunrise 06:33, 12 h 48 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:33 to 17:45, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:45 to 06:33 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 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′. Magha spans 120°00′–133°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 120°. It leaves at 03:45 Thu, for Purva Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 37.9° + 122.5° = 160.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 05:58 Thu, then Harshana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti runs until 18:02, when the lead reaches 90°; Bava until 06:52 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:33 to 06:33 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 16 May 16:27 Wed to 15 Jun 00:13 Fri the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 07:22 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha 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 16 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 18 Mar 2007, 23:42 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 63.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.