Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 21 Jun 1974

Rath Yatra follows the tithi at sunrise. Dwitiya begins at 07:03 on Fri 21 Jun, after that sunrise, and ends at 03:35 on Sat 22 Jun, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Fri 21 Jun. No text giving Rath Yatra’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Rath Yatra: every date in Pāthardi

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 0°–12° is the 1st, Shukla Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:52 here. Amavasya ended at 10:25 Thu, before it. Pratipada ends at 07:03, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 20 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwitiya began at 07:03 and ended at 03:35 Sat, between the sunrises of 05:52 and 05:52 Sat. Friday reads Pratipada and Saturday reads Tritiya: Dwitiya is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 20 Jun ran from sunset 19:09 Thu to sunrise 05:52, 10 h 43 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:52 to 19:09, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:09 to 05:52 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 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 10:34, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 65.8° + 77.1° = 142.9°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 133°20′–146°40′ is the 11th, Vriddhi. It ends at 11:38, then Dhruva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Kinstughna and the second Bava. Kinstughna ended at 20:46 Thu, when the lead reached 6°; Bava runs until 07:03.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:52 to 05:52 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 Jul, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 20 Jun, with the Sun in Mithuna, began Ashadha. This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 24 Mar 1974, 02:53 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 86.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2031; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1896.