Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Wed 24 Aug 2050

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, 06:12 here. Panchami ended at 05:13 Tue, before it. Shashthi ends at 06:59, when the lead reaches 72°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 05:13 Tue, before sunrise at 06:12 Tue, and ends at 06:59, after the next sunrise at 06:12. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Tue 23 Aug ran from sunset 18:51 Tue to sunrise 06:12, 11 h 21 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:12 to 18:50, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 34 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:50 to 06:12 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 25 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 196°40′. It leaves at 09:48, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 126.5° + 198.2° = 324.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 320°00′–333°20′ is the 25th, Brahma. It ends at 21:48, then Indra.

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 ended at 18:10 Tue, when the lead reached 66°; Taitila runs until 06:59.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:12 to 06:12 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Aug 17:17 Wed to 16 Sep 09:19 Fri the Sun stayed in Simha, entering Kanya at 17 Sep 11:33 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Bhadrapada, before Bhadrapada 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 17 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 23 Mar 2050, 06:11 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 148.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2107; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1972.