Panchang in Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Mon 29 Aug 2011

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, 06:01 here. Amavasya ended at 05:04, before it. Pratipada ends at 01:41 Tue, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 29 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:57, came before Amavasya ended at 08:34: this day reads Amavasya. Pratipada ends at 05:11 Tue, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Pratipada: it is kshaya.

Myjava · UTC+2

Sunrise here, 06:01, came after Amavasya ended at 05:04: this day reads Pratipada.

The night of Sun 28 Aug ran from sunset 19:40 Sun to sunrise 06:01, 10 h 21 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 41 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:01 to 19:38, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 42 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:38 to 06:02 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 18 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′. Magha spans 120°00′–133°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 130°. It leaves at 08:08, for Purva Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 131.5° + 132° = 263.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 10:49, then Siddha.

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 runs until 15:24, when the lead reaches 6°; Bava until 01:41 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:01 to 06:02 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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 27 Sep, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 29 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada. This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 3 Apr 2011, 16:32 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 142° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2068; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1933.