Panchang in Thazhecode, Kerala Tue 14 Jan 2031

Lohri’s bonfire is lit on the evening before Makar Sankranti. The Sun enters Makara at 21:51, and Makar Sankranti is on Wed 15 Jan: Tue 14 Jan. No text giving Lohri’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Lohri: every date in Thazhecode

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, 06:49 here. Chaturthi ended at 06:28 Mon, before it. Panchami ends at 07:04, when the lead reaches 240°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 8 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Panchami began at 06:28 Mon, before sunrise at 06:48 Mon, and ends at 07:04, after the next sunrise at 06:49. Both days read Panchami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:15, came after Panchami ended at 07:04: this day reads Shashthi.

Thazhecode · IST

Sunrise here, 06:49, came before Panchami ended at 07:04: this day reads Panchami.

The night of Mon 13 Jan ran from sunset 18:20 Mon to sunrise 06:49, 12 h 29 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:49 to 18:20, 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, 18:20 to 06:49 Wed, 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′. Uttara Phalguni spans 146°40′–160°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 146°40′. It leaves at 02:46 Wed, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 269.4° + 149.2° = 418.6°, one full turn and 58.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 53°20′–66°40′ is the 5th, Shobhana. It ends at 20:43, then Atiganda.

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 18:50 Mon, when the lead reached 234°; Taitila runs until 07:04.

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

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, 23 Jan, 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 23 Jan, 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: 3 Apr 2030, 03:32 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 280.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2087; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1952.