Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 3 Mar 1931

Holika is burnt in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset, outside bhadra. Purnima runs from 19:55 on Tue 3 Mar to 16:05 on Wed 4 Mar, so it touches only Tuesday’s pradosha (18:35–21:01). Bhadra lasts until 06:01 Wed, past nishitha, so the Dharmasindhu allows its tail, the puchha. Tithika places the puchha at 02:29 Wed–03:29 Wed, scaled from its ghatis: Tithika’s convention.

Holika Dahan muhurat: bhadra puchha, 02:29 Wed–03:29 Wed.

Holika Dahan: every date in Pāthardi

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 156°–168° is the 14th, Shukla Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:48 here. Trayodashi ended at 23:37 Mon, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 19:55, when the lead reaches 168°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

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

Daylight here, 06:48 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 Wed, 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′. Ashlesha spans 106°40′–120°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 116°40′. It leaves at 08:38, for Magha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 318.6° + 118.8° = 437.4°, one full turn and 77.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 10:35, then Sukarma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 09:48, when the lead reaches 162°; Vanija until 19:55.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:48 to 06:47 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 Mar, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 17 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 30 Mar 1930, 11:16 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 332.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1987; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1852.