Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 3 May 2075

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 14:31 on Fri 3 May to 11:27 on Sat 4 May, so it holds moonrise only on Fri 3 May, at 21:46. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Pāthardi

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:00 here. Dwitiya ended at 17:44 Thu, before it. Tritiya ends at 14:31, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 2 May ran from sunset 18:52 Thu to sunrise 06:00, 11 h 8 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:00 to 18:52, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:52 to 05:59 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 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′. Jyeshtha spans 226°40′–240°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 226°40′. It leaves at 23:58, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 17.8° + 228.9° = 246.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 15:59, then Shiva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 04:07, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 14:31.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:00 to 05:59 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 15 Apr 14:26 Mon to 15 May 04:53 Wed the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 15 May 19:39 Wed, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha 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 15 May, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) here, and Vaishakha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2075, 00:56 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 46.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2132; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1997.