Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Mon 7 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, 06:44 here. Saptami ended at 05:54 Sun, before it. Ashtami ends at 07:46, 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 Sun, before sunrise at 06:45 Sun, and ends at 07:46, after the next sunrise at 06:44. Both days read Ashtami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Sun 6 Mar ran from sunset 18:36 Sun to sunrise 06:44, 12 h 8 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:44 to 18:36, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 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 06:43 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 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′. Jyeshtha spans 226°40′–240°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 236°40′. It leaves at 11:08, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 322.3° + 237.8° = 560.1°, one full turn and 200.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 200°00′–213°20′ is the 16th, Siddhi. It ends at 07:21 Tue, then Vyatipata.

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

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:44 to 06:43 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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 341.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2039; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1904.