Panchang in Thazhecode, Kerala Mon 4 Jun 2018

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 228°–240° is the 20th, Krishna Panchami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:01 here. Chaturthi ended at 04:17 Sun, before it. Panchami ends at 06:52, when the lead reaches 240°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Panchami began at 04:17 Sun, before sunrise at 06:01 Sun, and ends at 06:52, after the next sunrise at 06:01. Both days read Panchami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Sun 3 Jun ran from sunset 18:46 Sun to sunrise 06:01, 11 h 15 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:01 to 18:46, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:46 to 06:01 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 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′. Shravana spans 280°00′–293°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 286°40′. It leaves at 15:05, for Dhanishtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 49.3° + 288.9° = 338.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 333°20′–346°40′ is the 26th, Indra. It ends at 22:02, then Vaidhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Panchami is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava ended at 17:35 Sun, when the lead reached 234°; Taitila runs until 06:52.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:01 to 06:01 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 May 17:17 Tue to 14 Jun 01:13 Thu the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 11:36 Fri, 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 14 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) here, and Jyeshtha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2018, 18:41 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 76.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.