Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 1 Sep 1942

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:13 here. Panchami ended at 05:10 Mon, before it. Shashthi ends at 07:22, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 26 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 05:10 Mon, before sunrise at 06:13 Mon, and ends at 07:22, after the next sunrise at 07:13. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Mon 31 Aug ran from sunset 18:45 Mon to sunrise 07:13, 11 h 28 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:13 to 19:44, 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 night here, 19:44 to 07:14 Wed, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 26°40′. It leaves at 09:14 Wed, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 134.9° + 26.8° = 161.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 04:25 Wed, then Harshana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 17:41 Mon, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 07:22.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:13 to 07:14 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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 16 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 10 Sep, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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 10 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada here, and Shravana in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 1942, 06:19 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 162.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1999; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1864.