Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Wed 3 Mar 1926

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 04:03 on Wed 3 Mar to 05:12 on Thu 4 Mar, so it holds moonrise only on Wed 3 Mar, at 21:41. 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: 216°–228° is the 19th, Krishna Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:47 here. Tritiya ended at 04:03, before it. Chaturthi ends at 05:12 Thu, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 27 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 2 Mar ran from sunset 18:34 Tue to sunrise 06:47, 12 h 13 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:47 to 18:35, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:35 to 06:47 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 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′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 173°20′. It leaves at 02:59 Thu, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 318.9° + 176.2° = 495.1°, one full turn and 135.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 133°20′–146°40′ is the 11th, Vriddhi. It ends at 03:27 Thu, then Dhruva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 16:41, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 05:12 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:47 to 06:47 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 12 Feb 22:50 Fri to 14 Mar 08:50 Sun the Sun stayed in Kumbha, entering Meena at 14 Mar 09:23 Sun, 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 14 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna (Adhik) here, and Phalguna (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 24 Mar 1925, 19:32 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 338.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1982; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1847.