Panchang in Split, Split-Dalmatia, Croatia Fri 31 Jan 2025

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 12°–24° is the 2nd, Shukla Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:11 here. Pratipada ended at 11:41 Thu, before it. Dwitiya ends at 09:29, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 29 Jan, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Tritiya began at 09:29 and ended at 07:08 Sat, between the sunrises of 07:11 and 07:10 Sat. Friday reads Dwitiya and Saturday reads Chaturthi: Tritiya is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 30 Jan ran from sunset 17:03 Thu to sunrise 07:11, 14 h 8 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 56 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:11 to 17:04, 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 night here, 17:04 to 07:10 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 45 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′. Shatabhisha spans 306°40′–320°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 310°. It leaves at 23:44, for Purva Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 287.4° + 310.1° = 597.5°, one full turn and 237.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 226°40′–240°00′ is the 18th, Variyana. It ends at 11:02, then Parigha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 22:36 Thu, when the lead reached 18°; Kaulava runs until 09:29.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:11 to 07:10 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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 12 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 28 Feb, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 29 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, began Magha. This Shukla paksha reads Magha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 2024, 20:20 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 292.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.