Panchang in Same, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Sat 24 Jun 2017

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, 06:35 here. Amavasya ended at 05:30, before it. Pratipada ends at 01:51 Sun, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 24 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:24, came before Amavasya ended at 08:00: this day reads Amavasya. Pratipada ends at 04:21 Sun, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Pratipada: it is kshaya.

Same · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 06:35, came after Amavasya ended at 05:30: this day reads Pratipada.

The night of Fri 23 Jun ran from sunset 18:28 Fri to sunrise 06:35, 12 h 7 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:35 to 18:28, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:28 to 06:35 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 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′. Ardra spans 66°40′–80°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 66°40′. It leaves at 23:27, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 68.7° + 69.4° = 138.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 133°20′–146°40′ is the 11th, Vriddhi. It ends at 19:21, then Dhruva.

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 15:39, when the lead reaches 6°; Bava until 01:51 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:35 to 06:35 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 23 Jul, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 24 Jun, with the Sun in Mithuna, began Ashadha. This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 28 Mar 2017, 05:57 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 85.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2074; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1939.