Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sun 6 Mar 1983

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, 06:45 here. Saptami ended at 05:54, before it. Ashtami ends at 07:46 Mon, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 27 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 05:54, before sunrise at 06:45, and ends at 07:46 Mon, after the next sunrise at 06:44 Mon. Both days read Ashtami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Sat 5 Mar ran from sunset 18:35 Sat to sunrise 06:45, 12 h 10 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:45 to 18:36, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:36 to 06:44 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 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′. Anuradha spans 213°20′–226°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 223°20′. It leaves at 08:41, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 321.3° + 225.7° = 547°, one full turn and 187°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 06:35 Mon, then Siddhi.

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 runs until 18:45, when the lead reaches 270°; Kaulava until 07:46 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:45 to 06:44 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 13 Feb 06:01 Sun to 14 Mar 23:13 Mon the Sun stayed in Kumbha, entering Meena at 15 Mar 00:14 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Phalguna, before Phalguna 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 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna (Adhik) here, and Phalguna (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 1982, 15:47 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 340.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2039; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1904.