Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sun 1 Apr 1945

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 07:28 on Sun 1 Apr to 09:39 on Mon 2 Apr, so it holds moonrise only on Sun 1 Apr, at 22:45. 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, 07:23 here. Dwitiya ended at 05:07 Sat, before it. Tritiya ends at 07:28, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 Mar, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Tritiya began at 05:07 Sat, before sunrise at 07:24 Sat, and ends at 07:28, after the next sunrise at 07:23. Both days read Tritiya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Sat 31 Mar ran from sunset 19:42 Sat to sunrise 07:23, 11 h 41 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:23 to 19:43, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:43 to 07:22 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 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′. Vishakha spans 200°00′–213°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 203°20′. It leaves at 02:29 Mon, for Anuradha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 347.8° + 203.8° = 551.6°, one full turn and 191.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 22:50, then Siddhi.

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 18:18 Sat, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 07:28.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:23 to 07:22 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 Mar 10:20 Wed to 12 Apr 18:59 Thu the Sun stayed in Meena, entering Mesha at 13 Apr 15:59 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Chaitra, before Chaitra 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 12 Apr, with the Sun in Meena, begins Chaitra (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Chaitra (Adhik) here, and Chaitra (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 14 Mar 1945, 10:20 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 17.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2002; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1867.