Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Thu 9 Nov 1950

Lakshmi Puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Amavasya runs from 08:35 on Thu 9 Nov to 04:55 on Fri 10 Nov, so only Thursday’s pradosha (17:52–20:24) falls within it. Every reading takes that day.

Lakshmi Puja muhurat: pradosha, 17:52–20:24. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 18:12 to 20:12.

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The abhyanga bath is taken in arunodaya, the 96 minutes before sunrise. Chaturdashi runs from 11:55 on Wed 8 Nov to 08:35 on Thu 9 Nov, so only Thursday’s arunodaya (04:57–06:33) falls within it. No text giving Narak Chaturdashi’s time was found; arunodaya is Tithika’s convention.

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Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya begins at 08:35 on Thu 9 Nov, after that sunrise, and ends at 04:55 on Fri 10 Nov, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Thu 9 Nov. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Pāthardi

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:33 here. Trayodashi ended at 11:55 Wed, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 08:35, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 26 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Amavasya began at 08:35 and ended at 04:55 Fri, between the sunrises of 06:33 and 06:33 Fri. Thursday reads Chaturdashi and Friday reads Pratipada: Amavasya is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Wed 8 Nov ran from sunset 17:52 Wed to sunrise 06:33, 12 h 41 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:33 to 17:52, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:52 to 06:33 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 186°40′. It leaves at 22:53, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 202.9° + 189.7° = 392.6°, one full turn and 32.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 26°40′–40°00′ is the 3rd, Ayushmana. It ends at 17:35, then Saubhagya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti ended at 22:18 Wed, when the lead reached 342°; Shakuni runs until 08:35.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:33 to 06:33 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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 10 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 Nov, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika here, and Ashwina in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 18 Mar 1950, 20:50 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 228.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2007; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1872.