Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 6 Aug 1985

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:07 here. Panchami ended at 05:55, before it. Shashthi ends at 08:11 Wed, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 05:55, before sunrise at 06:07, and ends at 08:11 Wed, after the next sunrise at 06:07 Wed. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:45, came before Panchami ended at 05:55: this day reads Panchami.

Pāthardi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:07, came after Panchami ended at 05:55: this day reads Shashthi.

The night of Mon 5 Aug ran from sunset 19:03 Mon to sunrise 06:07, 11 h 4 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:07 to 19:02, 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, 19:02 to 06:07 Wed, 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′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 346°40′. It leaves at 02:20 Wed, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 109.9° + 349.9° = 459.8°, one full turn and 99.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 93°20′–106°40′ is the 8th, Dhriti. It ends at 18:53, then Shula.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 19:00, when the lead reaches 246°; Vanija until 08:11 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:07 to 06:07 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 18 Jul 05:26 Thu to 16 Aug 15:35 Fri the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 16 Aug 19:53 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 16 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 1985, 17:28 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 132.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2042; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1907.