Panchang in Thazhecode, Kerala Wed 19 Jan 2022

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 180°–192° is the 16th, Krishna Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:49 here. Purnima ended at 05:18 Tue, before it. Pratipada ends at 06:54, when the lead reaches 192°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 18 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 05:18 Tue, before sunrise at 06:49 Tue, and ends at 06:54, after the next sunrise at 06:49. Both days read Pratipada: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:14, came after Pratipada ended at 06:54: this day reads Dwitiya.

Thazhecode · IST

Sunrise here, 06:49, came before Pratipada ended at 06:54: this day reads Pratipada.

The night of Tue 18 Jan ran from sunset 18:22 Tue to sunrise 06:49, 12 h 27 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:49 to 18:23, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:23 to 06:50 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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′. Ashlesha spans 106°40′–120°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 106°40′. It leaves at 08:24 Thu, for Magha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 274.8° + 106.7° = 381.5°, one full turn and 21.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 16:05, then Ayushmana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 18:09 Tue, when the lead reached 186°; Kaulava runs until 06:54.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:49 to 06:50 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Feb, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 1 Feb, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 12 Apr 2021, 08:00 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 276.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2078; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1943.