Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 23 Oct 1984

Lakshmi Puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Amavasya runs from 21:14 on Tue 23 Oct to 17:38 on Wed 24 Oct, between the two evenings’ pradosha, touching neither. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier day: Tue 23 Oct. Every reading takes that day.

Lakshmi Puja muhurat: pradosha, 18:00–20:29. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 19:18 to 20:29.

Diwali: every date in Pāthardi

The abhyanga bath is taken in arunodaya, the 96 minutes before sunrise. Chaturdashi runs from 00:52 on Tue 23 Oct to 21:14 on Tue 23 Oct, so only Tuesday’s arunodaya (04:50–06:26) falls within it. No text giving Narak Chaturdashi’s time was found; arunodaya is Tithika’s convention.

Narak Chaturdashi: every date in Pāthardi

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:26 here. Trayodashi ended at 00:52, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 21:14, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 10 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 22 Oct ran from sunset 18:01 Mon to sunrise 06:26, 12 h 25 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:26 to 18:00, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:00 to 06:26 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 163°20′. It leaves at 18:57, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 186.2° + 165.4° = 351.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 18:56, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti runs until 11:03, when the lead reaches 342°; Shakuni until 21:14.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:26 to 06:26 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 24 Oct, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 24 Oct, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika here, and Ashwina in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 1 Apr 1984, 17:39 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 197.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2041; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1906.