Panchang in Libode, Eastern Cape, South Africa Sat 2 Jun 2018

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 22:14 on Fri 1 Jun to 00:47 on Sun 3 Jun, so it holds moonrise only on Sat 2 Jun, at 20:29. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Libode

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 216°–228° is the 19th, Krishna Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:55 here. Tritiya ended at 22:14 Fri, before it. Chaturthi ends at 00:47 Sun, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Fri 1 Jun ran from sunset 17:08 Fri to sunrise 06:55, 13 h 47 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 55 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:55 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 Sun, 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 266°40′. It leaves at 08:28 Sun, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 47.5° + 267.4° = 314.9°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 16:24, then Brahma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 11:30, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 00:47 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:55 to 06:55 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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 74.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.