Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Wed 10 Aug 1966

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, 06:08 here. Saptami ended at 05:47 Tue, before it. Ashtami ends at 06:52, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 05:47 Tue, before sunrise at 06:08 Tue, and ends at 06:52, after the next sunrise at 06:08. Both days read Ashtami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Tue 9 Aug ran from sunset 19:01 Tue to sunrise 06:08, 11 h 7 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:08 to 19:00, 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 night here, 19:00 to 06:08 Thu, 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 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 02:27 Thu, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 113.6° + 29.2° = 142.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 133°20′–146°40′ is the 11th, Vriddhi. It ends at 13:01, then Dhruva.

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 18:25 Tue, when the lead reached 270°; Kaulava runs until 06:52.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:08 to 06:08 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 18 Jul 10:00 Mon to 16 Aug 17:17 Tue the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 16 Aug 22:58 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 16 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 1966, 10:16 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 135.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2023; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1888.