Panchang in Polatlı, Ankara, Turkey Thu 7 Mar 2019

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 0°–12° is the 1st, Shukla Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:16 here. Amavasya ended at 19:03 Wed, before it. Pratipada ends at 21:14, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 6 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Wed 6 Mar ran from sunset 18:48 Wed to sunrise 07:16, 12 h 28 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:16 to 18:49, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:49 to 07:14 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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 Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 326°40′. It leaves at 18:23, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 322.2° + 327.8° = 650°, one full turn and 290°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 13:32, then Shubha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Kinstughna and the second Bava. Kinstughna runs until 08:11, when the lead reaches 6°; Bava until 21:14.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:16 to 07:14 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 15 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 5 Apr, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 6 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2018, 16:11 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 349.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.