Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Thu 24 Oct 1963

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 60°–72° is the 6th, Shukla Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:26 here. Panchami ended at 06:38 Wed, before it. Shashthi ends at 08:45, when the lead reaches 72°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Wed 23 Oct ran from sunset 18:01 Wed to sunrise 06:26, 12 h 25 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:26 to 18:00, 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 night here, 18:00 to 06:26 Fri, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Purva Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 256°40′. It leaves at 00:32 Fri, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 186.5° + 257.5° = 444°, one full turn and 84°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 23:23, then Dhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava ended at 19:45 Wed, when the lead reached 66°; Taitila runs until 08:45.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:26 to 06:26 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Oct 18:12 Thu to 16 Nov 12:20 Sat the Sun stayed in Tula, entering Vrishchika at 16 Nov 16:09 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Kartika, before Kartika 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 17 Oct, with the Sun in Tula, began Kartika (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Kartika (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 1963, 17:39 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 205.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2020; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1885.