Panchang in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Fri 16 Mar 2029

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 0°–12° is the 1st, Shukla Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:23 here. Amavasya ended at 06:19 Thu, before it. Pratipada ends at 08:43, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 06:19 Thu, before sunrise at 06:25 Thu, and ends at 08:43, after the next sunrise at 06:23. Both days read Pratipada: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 15 Mar ran from sunset 18:17 Thu to sunrise 06:23, 12 h 6 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:23 to 18:18, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:18 to 06:21 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 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 Bhadrapada spans 333°20′–346°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 340°. It leaves at 14:44, for Revati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 331.6° + 342.5° = 674.1°, one full turn and 314.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 17:19, then Brahma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Kinstughna and the second Bava. Kinstughna ended at 19:30 Thu, when the lead reached 6°; Bava runs until 08:43.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:23 to 06:21 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 Mar 06:19 Thu to 14 Apr 00:40 Sat the Sun stayed in Meena, entering Mesha at 14 Apr 01:24 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Chaitra, before Chaitra 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 Mar, with the Sun in Meena, began Chaitra (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Chaitra (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 2029, 06:19 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2086; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1951.