Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Thu 16 Dec 1915

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 108°–120° is the 10th, Shukla Dashami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:54 here. Navami ended at 05:49 Wed, before it. Dashami ends at 07:03, when the lead reaches 120°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 6 Dec, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dashami began at 05:49 Wed, before sunrise at 06:54 Wed, and ends at 07:03, after the next sunrise at 06:54. Both days read Dashami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:06, came after Dashami ended at 07:03: this day reads Ekadashi.

Pāthardi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:54, came before Dashami ended at 07:03: this day reads Dashami.

The night of Wed 15 Dec ran from sunset 17:53 Wed to sunrise 06:54, 13 h 1 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:54 to 17:53, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:53 to 06:55 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 0°. It leaves at 08:36 Fri, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 240.3° + 0.3° = 240.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 06:02 Fri, then Shiva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dashami is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 18:22 Wed, when the lead reached 114°; Garaja runs until 07:03.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:54 to 06:55 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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, 5 Jan, 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 6 Dec, with the Sun in Vrishchika, began Margashirsha. This Shukla paksha reads Margashirsha in both counts.

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 268.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1972; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1837.