Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 20 Sep 2058

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 24°–36° is the 3rd, Shukla Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:17 here. Dwitiya ended at 05:59, before it. Tritiya ends at 06:30 Sat, when the lead reaches 36°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 18 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Tritiya began at 05:59, before sunrise at 06:17, and ends at 06:30 Sat, after the next sunrise at 06:17 Sat. Both days read Tritiya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 19 Sep ran from sunset 18:28 Thu to sunrise 06:17, 11 h 49 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:17 to 18:27, 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, 18:27 to 06:17 Sat, 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′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 176°40′. It leaves at 00:54 Sat, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 152.7° + 176.8° = 329.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 320°00′–333°20′ is the 25th, Brahma. It ends at 13:04, then Indra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila runs until 18:17, when the lead reaches 30°; Garaja until 06:30 Sat.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:17 to 06:17 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 18 Sep 03:48 Wed to 17 Oct 18:35 Thu the Sun stayed in Kanya, entering Tula at 18 Oct 00:48 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashwina, before Ashwina 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 18 Sep, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 24 Mar 2058, 15:20 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 173.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2115; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1980.