Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sat 6 May 1972

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 252°–264° is the 22nd, Krishna Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:58 here. Shashthi ended at 05:38 Fri, before it. Saptami ends at 06:01, when the lead reaches 264°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 28 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 06:01 and ended at 05:40 Sun, between the sunrises of 05:58 and 05:57 Sun. Saturday reads Saptami and Sunday reads Navami: Ashtami is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 05:38 Fri, before sunrise at 05:58 Fri, and ends at 06:01, after the next sunrise at 05:58. Both days read Saptami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Fri 5 May ran from sunset 18:53 Fri to sunrise 05:58, 11 h 5 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:58 to 18:53, 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, 18:53 to 05:57 Sun, 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′. Shravana spans 280°00′–293°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 283°20′. It leaves at 19:17, for Dhanishtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 22.1° + 286.1° = 308.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 02:05 Sun, then Brahma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti ended at 17:55 Fri, when the lead reached 258°; Bava runs until 06:01.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:58 to 05:57 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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 13 May, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) here, and Vaishakha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

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 50.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2029; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1894.