Panchang in Thazhecode, Kerala Sun 18 May 2025

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, 06:02 here. Panchami ended at 05:58, before it. Shashthi ends at 06:12 Mon, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 12 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 05:58, before sunrise at 06:02, and ends at 06:12 Mon, after the next sunrise at 06:02 Mon. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:28, came before Panchami ended at 05:58: this day reads Panchami.

Thazhecode · IST

Sunrise here, 06:02, came after Panchami ended at 05:58: this day reads Shashthi.

The night of Sat 17 May ran from sunset 18:42 Sat to sunrise 06:02, 11 h 20 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:02 to 18:42, 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, 18:42 to 06:02 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 25 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 2 at 270°. It leaves at 18:52, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 33.1° + 273.2° = 306.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 06:42, then Shukla.

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 18:09, when the lead reaches 246°; Vanija until 06:12 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:02 to 06:02 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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, 27 May, 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 27 May, 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: 29 Mar 2025, 16:27 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 48.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2082; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1947.