Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Wed 14 Oct 2048

Durga Ashtami follows the tithi at sunrise. Ashtami begins at 06:49 on Wed 14 Oct, after that sunrise, and ends at 04:54 on Thu 15 Oct, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Wed 14 Oct. No text giving Durga Ashtami’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Durga Ashtami: every date in Pāthardi

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 72°–84° is the 7th, Shukla Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:23 here. Shashthi ended at 08:57 Tue, before it. Saptami ends at 06:49, when the lead reaches 84°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 7 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 06:49 and ended at 04:54 Thu, between the sunrises of 06:23 and 06:23 Thu. Wednesday reads Saptami and Thursday reads Navami: Ashtami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Tue 13 Oct ran from sunset 18:07 Tue to sunrise 06:23, 12 h 16 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:23 to 18:06, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:06 to 06:23 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 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 Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 260°. It leaves at 16:45, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 176.8° + 260.6° = 437.4°, one full turn and 77.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 10:31, then Sukarma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 19:51 Tue, when the lead reached 78°; Vanija runs until 06:49.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:23 to 06:23 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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, 6 Nov, 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 7 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina. This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina 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 206.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2105; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1970.