Panchang in Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria Fri 14 Oct 2033

Ahoi Ashtami’s puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Ashtami runs from 19:52 on Fri 14 Oct to 19:54 on Sat 15 Oct, touching pradosha on both evenings. The Nirnayasindhu takes the evening it holds more of: Fri 14 Oct. No text giving Ahoi Ashtami’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Ahoi Ashtami: every date in Sofia

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 252°–264° is the 22nd, Krishna Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:38 here. Shashthi ended at 20:38 Thu, before it. Saptami ends at 19:52, when the lead reaches 264°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 8 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 13 Oct ran from sunset 18:47 Thu to sunrise 07:38, 12 h 51 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:38 to 18:45, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:45 to 07:40 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 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 3 at 73°20′. It leaves at 17:27, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 176.8° + 74.6° = 251.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 10:54, then Shiva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti runs until 08:09, when the lead reaches 258°; Bava until 19:52.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:38 to 07:40 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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, 23 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 23 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: 30 Mar 2033, 20:51 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 190.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2090; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1955.