Panchang in Thazhecode, Kerala Fri 24 May 2019

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:01 here. Panchami ended at 04:18, before it. Shashthi ends at 06:25 Sat, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 19 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 04:18, before sunrise at 06:01, and ends at 06:25 Sat, after the next sunrise at 06:01 Sat. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 23 May ran from sunset 18:43 Thu to sunrise 06:01, 11 h 18 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:01 to 18:43, 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, 18:43 to 06:01 Sat, 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 276°40′. It leaves at 07:30, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 38.5° + 279.3° = 317.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 10:14, then Brahma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 17:19, when the lead reaches 246°; Vanija until 06:25 Sat.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:01 to 06:01 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: Mesha gives Vaishakha. The Sun enters Vrishabha on 15 May, inside the month. The next new moon, 3 Jun, finds it in Vrishabha and begins Jyeshtha.

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 3 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha here, and Vaishakha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 5 Apr 2019, 14:20 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 47.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2076; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1941.