Panchang in Olean, New York, United States Wed 10 Oct 2018

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 12°–24° is the 2nd, Shukla Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:20 here. Pratipada ended at 21:55 Tue, before it. Dwitiya ends at 20:36, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 8 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:18, came before Pratipada ended at 07:25: this day reads Pratipada. Dwitiya ends at 06:06 Thu, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Dwitiya: it is kshaya.

Olean · UTC−4

Sunrise here, 07:20, came after Pratipada ended at 21:55 Tue: this day reads Dwitiya.

The night of Tue 9 Oct ran from sunset 18:41 Tue to sunrise 07:20, 12 h 39 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:20 to 18:39, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:39 to 07:21 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 190°. It leaves at 01:00 Thu, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 173° + 190° = 363°, one full turn and 3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 00:22 Thu, then Priti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava runs until 09:11, when the lead reaches 18°; Kaulava until 20:36.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:20 to 07:21 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 7 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 8 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina. This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2018, 09:11 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 200.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.