Panchang in Şefaatlı, Yozgat, Turkey Fri 4 Aug 2023

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 10:15 on Fri 4 Aug to 07:10 on Sat 5 Aug, so it holds moonrise only on Fri 4 Aug, at 21:49. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Şefaatlı

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, 05:42 here. Dwitiya ended at 13:47 Thu, before it. Tritiya ends at 10:15, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 3 Aug ran from sunset 19:51 Thu to sunrise 05:42, 9 h 51 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 39 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:42 to 19:50, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 46 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:50 to 05:43 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 14 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 1 at 320°. It leaves at 02:14 Sat, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 107.3° + 320.7° = 428°, one full turn and 68°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 23:58, then Sukarma.

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 23:58 Thu, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 10:15.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:42 to 05:43 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 17 Jul 21:31 Mon to 16 Aug 12:38 Wed the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 17 Aug 11:02 Thu, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 2023, 20:23 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 130.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.