Panchang in Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria Sun 1 Oct 2023

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, 07:23 here. Dwitiya ended at 07:12, before it. Tritiya ends at 05:06 Mon, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:13, came before Dwitiya ended at 09:42: this day reads Dwitiya.

Sofia · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 07:23, came after Dwitiya ended at 07:12: this day reads Tritiya.

The night of Sat 30 Sep ran from sunset 19:10 Sat to sunrise 07:23, 12 h 13 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:23 to 19:08, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:08 to 07:24 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 6°40′. It leaves at 16:57, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 163.6° + 7.7° = 171.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 10:43, then Harshana.

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 runs until 18:04, when the lead reaches 210°; Vishti until 05:06 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:23 to 07:24 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 14 Oct, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 14 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina here, and Bhadrapada in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 2023, 19:23 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 187° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.