Panchang in Mapleton, Utah, United States Mon 18 Nov 2024

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 06:26 on Mon 18 Nov to 04:58 on Tue 19 Nov, so it holds moonrise only on Mon 18 Nov, at 19:32. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Mapleton

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, 07:15 here. Tritiya ended at 06:26, before it. Chaturthi ends at 04:58 Tue, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 15 Nov, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:46, came after Dwitiya ended at 21:06 Sun: this day reads Tritiya.

Mapleton · UTC−7

Sunrise here, 07:15, came after Tritiya ended at 06:26: this day reads Chaturthi.

The night of Sun 17 Nov ran from sunset 17:07 Sun to sunrise 07:15, 14 h 8 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 56 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:15 to 17:07, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 14 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:07 to 07:17 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 46 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 02:25 Tue, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 212.5° + 69° = 281.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 02:25 Tue, then Shubha.

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 17:36, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 04:58 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:15 to 07:17 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the rashi the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 15 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 30 Nov, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

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 30 Nov, with the Sun in Vrishchika, begins Margashirsha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Margashirsha here, and Kartika in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 2024, 12:20 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 217.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.