Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 18 Sep 1990

The shraddha for all ancestors is done in aparahna, the fourth fifth of the day. Amavasya runs from 06:14 on Tue 18 Sep to 06:16 on Wed 19 Sep, so only Tuesday’s aparahna (13:36–16:03) falls within it. No text giving Sarva Pitru Amavasya’s time was found; aparahna is Tithika’s convention.

Sarva Pitru Amavasya: every date in Pāthardi

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 06:14 on Tue 18 Sep to 06:16 on Wed 19 Sep, so it holds sunrise only on Tue 18 Sep, at 06:17. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Pāthardi

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:17 here. Chaturdashi ended at 06:14, before it. Amavasya ends at 06:16 Wed, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 5 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:07, came before Chaturdashi ended at 06:14: this day reads Chaturdashi.

Pāthardi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:17, came after Chaturdashi ended at 06:14: this day reads Amavasya.

The night of Mon 17 Sep ran from sunset 18:30 Mon to sunrise 06:17, 11 h 47 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:17 to 18:29, 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 night here, 18:29 to 06:17 Wed, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Purva Phalguni spans 133°20′–146°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 136°40′. It leaves at 20:09, for Uttara Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 151.1° + 139.2° = 290.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 11:30, then Shubha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada runs until 18:12, when the lead reaches 354°; Nagava until 06:16 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:17 to 06:17 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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 Sep, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 19 Sep, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina here, and Bhadrapada in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 27 Mar 1990, 01:18 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 168.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2047; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1912.