Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 15 Feb 1907

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 24°–36° is the 3rd, Shukla Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:58 here. Dwitiya ended at 19:17 Thu, before it. Tritiya ends at 18:10, when the lead reaches 36°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 12 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Thu 14 Feb ran from sunset 18:28 Thu to sunrise 06:58, 12 h 30 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:58 to 18:28, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:28 to 06:58 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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 Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 330°. It leaves at 07:50, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 302.7° + 332.8° = 635.5°, one full turn and 275.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 266°40′–280°00′ is the 21st, Siddha. It ends at 14:22, then Sadhya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 06:38, when the lead reached 30°; Garaja runs until 18:10.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:58 to 06:58 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 12 Feb 23:12 Tue to 14 Mar 11:34 Thu the Sun stayed in Kumbha, entering Meena at 14 Mar 12:29 Thu, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Phalguna, before Phalguna itself.

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 12 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 1906, 05:21 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 321.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1963; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1828.