Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 24 Nov 1959

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 264°–276° is the 23rd, Krishna Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:41 here. Saptami ended at 06:12 Mon, before it. Ashtami ends at 06:42, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 15 Nov, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Navami began at 06:42 and ended at 06:26 Wed, between the sunrises of 06:41 and 06:42 Wed. Tuesday reads Ashtami and Wednesday reads Dashami: Navami is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 06:12 Mon, before sunrise at 06:40 Mon, and ends at 06:42, after the next sunrise at 06:41. Both days read Ashtami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:50, came after Ashtami ended at 06:42: this day reads Navami.

Pāthardi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:41, came before Ashtami ended at 06:42: this day reads Ashtami. Navami ends at 06:26 Wed, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Navami: it is kshaya.

The night of Mon 23 Nov ran from sunset 17:49 Mon to sunrise 06:41, 12 h 52 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:41 to 17:49, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:49 to 06:42 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 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′. Purva Phalguni spans 133°20′–146°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 133°20′. It leaves at 06:22 Wed, for Uttara Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 217.7° + 133.7° = 351.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 21:21, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 18:32 Mon, when the lead reached 270°; Kaulava runs until 06:42.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:41 to 06:42 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: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 16 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 30 Nov, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

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 30 Nov, with the Sun in Vrishchika, begins Margashirsha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Margashirsha here, and Kartika in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 1959, 08:59 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 223.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2016; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1881.