Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Sun 24 Aug 2008

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 264°–276° is the 23rd, Krishna Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:25 here. Saptami ended at 09:55 Sat, before it. Ashtami ends at 07:41, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 16 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Navami began at 07:41 and ended at 05:21 Mon, between the sunrises of 06:25 and 06:24 Mon. Sunday reads Ashtami and Monday reads Dashami: Navami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Sat 23 Aug ran from sunset 18:04 Sat to sunrise 06:25, 12 h 21 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:25 to 18:04, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:04 to 06:24 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 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′. Rohini spans 40°00′–53°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 40°. It leaves at 23:59, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 127.6° + 42.9° = 170.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 10:53, then Harshana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 20:49 Sat, when the lead reached 270°; Kaulava runs until 07:41.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:25 to 06:24 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 16 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 30 Aug, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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 30 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada here, and Shravana in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 6 Apr 2008, 00:55 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 134.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2065; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1930.