Panchang in Libode, Eastern Cape, South Africa Fri 1 Jun 2018

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:54 here. Dwitiya ended at 19:54 Thu, before it. Tritiya ends at 22:14, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 31 May ran from sunset 17:08 Thu to sunrise 06:54, 13 h 46 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 55 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:54 to 17:08, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 16 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:08 to 06:55 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 43 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′. Purva Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 253°20′. It leaves at 05:20 Sat, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 46.6° + 255.6° = 302.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 15:21, then Shukla.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija runs until 09:02, when the lead reaches 210°; Vishti until 22:14.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:54 to 06:55 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 May 13:47 Tue to 13 Jun 21:43 Wed the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 08:06 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 13 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) here, and Jyeshtha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2018, 15:11 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 73.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.