Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Wed 4 Jul 2091

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 04:21 on Wed 4 Jul to 04:43 on Thu 5 Jul, so it holds moonrise only on Wed 4 Jul, at 21:53. 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: 216°–228° is the 19th, Krishna Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:56 here. Tritiya ended at 04:21, before it. Chaturthi ends at 04:43 Thu, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 3 Jul ran from sunset 19:11 Tue to sunrise 05:56, 10 h 45 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 43 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:56 to 19:11, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:11 to 05:56 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 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′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 293°20′. It leaves at 05:45 Thu, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 77.2° + 294° = 371.2°, one full turn and 11.2°. 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 09:33, then Priti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 16:27, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 04:43 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:56 to 05:56 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 Jun 08:12 Sun to 16 Jul 19:47 Mon the Sun stayed in Mithuna, entering Karka at 17 Jul 15:22 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashadha, before Ashadha 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 16 Jul, with the Sun in Mithuna, begins Ashadha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashadha (Adhik) here, and Ashadha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 2091, 09:17 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 102.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2148; Shaka Samvat numbers it 2013.