Panchang: tithi, vāra, nakṣatra, yoga and karaṇa
The five limbs of the day for any date and place: tithi, vāra, nakṣatra, yoga, karaṇa, with sunrise and when each ends. Computed from DE440.
Date and place
Also worth asking
What is today’s panchang?
A panchang gives the five limbs of a day at a place: tithi (the Moon’s phase in steps of 12°), vāra (the weekday from sunrise to sunrise), nakṣatra (the Moon’s lunar mansion), yoga (the sum of Sun and Moon in steps of 13°20′) and karaṇa (half a tithi). Each is taken at local sunrise.
How Patri works it out
- Sunrise at your place (the Sun’s upper limb on the horizon, with refraction).
- Sun and Moon positions at sunrise from DE440 (sidereal, Lahiri); each limb and when it ends.
- The lunar month (amānta and pūrṇimānta) and the Vikram and Śaka years.