Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Wed 19 Apr 1972

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, 06:09 here. Panchami ended at 09:13 Tue, before it. Shashthi ends at 07:27, when the lead reaches 72°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 14 Apr, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Tue 18 Apr ran from sunset 18:47 Tue to sunrise 06:09, 11 h 22 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:09 to 18:47, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 34 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:47 to 06:08 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 25 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′. Ardra spans 66°40′–80°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 76°40′. It leaves at 11:35, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 5.6° + 76.9° = 82.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 00:03 Thu, 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 20:15 Tue, when the lead reached 66°; Taitila runs until 07:27.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:09 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 14 Apr 02:00 Fri to 13 May 09:38 Sat the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 14 May 09:56 Sun, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha 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 14 Apr, with the Sun in Mesha, began Vaishakha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 1972, 17:04 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 34.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2029; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1894.