Panchang in Şefaatlı, Yozgat, Turkey Wed 20 May 2026

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 36°–48° is the 4th, Shukla Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:22 here. Tritiya ended at 11:48 Tue, before it. Chaturthi ends at 08:37, when the lead reaches 48°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 16 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Tue 19 May ran from sunset 19:51 Tue to sunrise 05:22, 9 h 31 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:22 to 19:52, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:52 to 05:22 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 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′. Punarvasu spans 80°00′–93°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 80°. It leaves at 01:42 Thu, for Pushya.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 34.9° + 81° = 115.9°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 11:40, then Ganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 22:09 Tue, when the lead reached 42°; Vishti runs until 08:37.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:22 to 05:22 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 16 May 23:01 Sat to 15 Jun 05:54 Mon the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 10:22 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha 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 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 2026, 04:23 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 60.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2083; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1948.