Panchang in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Fri 23 Mar 2029

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, 06:08 here. Saptami ended at 21:13 Thu, before it. Ashtami ends at 21:40, when the lead reaches 96°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Thu 22 Mar ran from sunset 18:28 Thu to sunrise 06:08, 11 h 40 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:08 to 18:29, 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 night here, 18:29 to 06:06 Sat, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Ardra spans 66°40′–80°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 66°40′. It leaves at 06:32 Sat, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 338.5° + 66.9° = 405.4°, one full turn and 45.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 40°00′–53°20′ is the 4th, Saubhagya. It ends at 19:52, then Shobhana.

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 09:33, when the lead reaches 90°; Bava until 21:40.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:08 to 06:06 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 7.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2086; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1951.