Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 20 Mar 2048

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 60°–72° is the 6th, Shukla Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:32 here. Panchami ended at 03:04, before it. Shashthi ends at 05:42 Sat, when the lead reaches 72°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 14 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Thu 19 Mar ran from sunset 18:40 Thu to sunrise 06:32, 11 h 52 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:32 to 18:40, 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, 18:40 to 06:32 Sat, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 36°40′. It leaves at 12:22, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 335.6° + 37.1° = 372.7°, one full turn and 12.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 07:43, then Priti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 16:22, when the lead reaches 66°; Taitila until 05:42 Sat.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:32 to 06:32 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 14 Mar 19:57 Sat to 13 Apr 10:49 Mon the Sun stayed in Meena, entering Mesha at 14 Apr 00:47 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Chaitra, before Chaitra 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 Meena, began Chaitra (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Chaitra (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 14 Mar 2048, 19:57 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 5.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2105; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1970.