Panchang in Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Sat 21 Dec 2024

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:40 here. Panchami ended at 06:19 Fri, before it. Shashthi ends at 07:51, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 15 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 06:19 Fri, before sunrise at 07:39 Fri, and ends at 07:51, after the next sunrise at 07:40. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Fri 20 Dec ran from sunset 15:55 Fri to sunrise 07:40, 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, 07:40 to 15:55, 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, 15:55 to 07:40 Sun, 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 Phalguni spans 133°20′–146°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 136°40′. It leaves at 01:44 Sun, for Uttara Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 245.7° + 137.6° = 383.3°, one full turn and 23.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 13:52, then Ayushmana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 19:00 Fri, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 07:51.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:40 to 07:40 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 15 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 30 Dec, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 2024, 20:20 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 250.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.