Panchang in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Thu 9 Jul 2015

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, 05:15 here. Saptami ended at 12:25 Wed, before it. Ashtami ends at 10:25, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 2 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 8 Jul ran from sunset 21:18 Wed to sunrise 05:15, 7 h 57 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 31 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:15 to 21:18, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 2 h 0 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:18 to 05:16 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 59 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′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 353°20′. It leaves at 12:37, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 82.5° + 355.7° = 438.2°, one full turn and 78.2°. 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 08:06, then Sukarma.

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 23:23 Wed, when the lead reached 270°; Kaulava runs until 10:25.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:15 to 05:16 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 16 Jun 17:05 Tue to 16 Jul 04:24 Thu the Sun stayed in Mithuna, entering Karka at 17 Jul 01:32 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashadha, before Ashadha 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 Jul, with the Sun in Mithuna, begins Ashadha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashadha (Adhik) here, and Ashadha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 2015, 11:36 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 107.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2072; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1937.