Panchang in Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Thu 20 Dec 1979

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, 07:39 here. Amavasya ended at 09:23 Wed, before it. Pratipada ends at 07:46, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 19 Dec, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwitiya began at 07:46 and ended at 05:51 Fri, between the sunrises of 07:39 and 07:39 Fri. Thursday reads Pratipada and Friday reads Tritiya: Dwitiya is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Wed 19 Dec ran from sunset 15:54 Wed to sunrise 07:39, 15 h 45 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 1 h 3 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:39 to 15:54, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 1 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 15:54 to 07:39 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 58 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 01:39 Fri, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 244.2° + 256.1° = 500.3°, one full turn and 140.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 133°20′–146°40′ is the 11th, Vriddhi. It ends at 17:46, then Dhruva.

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 20:37 Wed, when the lead reached 6°; Bava runs until 07:46.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:39 to 07:39 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 17 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 19 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 28 Mar 1979, 03:59 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 260.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2036; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1901.