Panchang in Saatlı, Azerbaijan Fri 3 Jul 2015

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 192°–204° is the 17th, Krishna Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:22 here. Pratipada ended at 05:12, before it. Dwitiya ends at 02:48 Sat, when the lead reaches 204°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 2 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:27, came before Pratipada ended at 05:42: this day reads Pratipada. Dwitiya ends at 03:18 Sat, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Dwitiya: it is kshaya.

Saatlı · UTC+5

Sunrise here, 06:22, came after Pratipada ended at 05:12: this day reads Dwitiya.

The night of Thu 2 Jul ran from sunset 21:18 Thu to sunrise 06:22, 9 h 4 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:22 to 21:18, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 52 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:18 to 06:22 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 8 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 266°40′. It leaves at 00:10 Sat, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 76.8° + 269.4° = 346.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 333°20′–346°40′ is the 26th, Indra. It ends at 07:09, then Vaidhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila runs until 16:02, when the lead reaches 198°; Garaja until 02:48 Sat.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:22 to 06:22 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 16 Jun 19:05 Tue to 16 Jul 06:24 Thu the Sun stayed in Mithuna, entering Karka at 17 Jul 03:32 Fri, 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 2015, 13:36 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 101.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2072; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1937.