Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sun 2 May 1915

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 08:31 on Sun 2 May to 05:18 on Mon 3 May, so it holds moonrise only on Sun 2 May, at 22:11. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Pāthardi

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:01 here. Dwitiya ended at 12:07 Sat, before it. Tritiya ends at 08:31, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturthi began at 08:31 and ended at 05:18 Mon, between the sunrises of 06:01 and 06:00 Mon. Sunday reads Tritiya and Monday reads Panchami: Chaturthi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Sat 1 May ran from sunset 18:51 Sat to sunrise 06:01, 11 h 10 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:01 to 18:51, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:51 to 06:00 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 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′. Jyeshtha spans 226°40′–240°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 230°. It leaves at 18:14, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 17.9° + 232.4° = 250.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 10:38, then Shiva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 22:17 Sat, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 08:31.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:01 to 06:00 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 14 Apr 17:05 Wed to 14 May 09:00 Fri the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 14 May 19:12 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha 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 14 May, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) here, and Vaishakha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 16 Mar 1915, 01:11 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 46.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1972; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1837.