Panchang in Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria Tue 17 Oct 2028

Lakshmi Puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Amavasya runs from 09:35 on Tue 17 Oct to 05:56 on Wed 18 Oct, so only Tuesday’s pradosha (18:40–21:17) falls within it. Every reading takes that day.

Lakshmi Puja muhurat: pradosha, 18:40–21:17. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 19:54 to 21:17.

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The abhyanga bath is taken in arunodaya, the 96 minutes before sunrise. Chaturdashi runs from 13:15 on Mon 16 Oct to 09:35 on Tue 17 Oct, so only Tuesday’s arunodaya (06:06–07:42) falls within it. No text giving Narak Chaturdashi’s time was found; arunodaya is Tithika’s convention.

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Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya begins at 09:35 on Tue 17 Oct, after that sunrise, and ends at 05:56 on Wed 18 Oct, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Tue 17 Oct. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

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The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:42 here. Trayodashi ended at 13:15 Mon, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 09:35, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 3 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Amavasya began at 09:35 and ended at 05:56 Wed, between the sunrises of 07:42 and 07:43 Wed. Tuesday reads Chaturdashi and Wednesday reads Pratipada: Amavasya is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Mon 16 Oct ran from sunset 18:42 Mon to sunrise 07:42, 13 h 0 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:42 to 18:40, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:40 to 07:43 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 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′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 166°40′. It leaves at 17:46, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 180.1° + 167° = 347.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 02:57 Wed, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti ended at 23:26 Mon, when the lead reached 342°; Shakuni runs until 09:35.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:42 to 07:43 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 18 Oct, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 18 Oct, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika here, and Ashwina in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 2028, 07:31 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 198.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2085; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1950.