Day
In the Hindu calendar, the day starts with local sunrise. It is allotted five "properties" or "limbs", called aṅga-s. They are:
- the Tithi (one of 30 divisions of a synodic month) active at sunrise
- the Vāsara (ancient nomeclature), vāra (modern nomeclature), like in ravi-vāra, somā-vāra, etc. or weekday
- the Nakṣatra (one of 27 divisions of the celestial ecliptic) in which the moon resides at sunrise
- the Yoga (one of 27 divisions based on the ecliptic longitude of the sun and moon) active at sunrise time
- the Karaṇa (divisions based on tithis) active at sunrise.
Together 5 limbs or properties are labelled under as the pañcāṅga-s (Sanskrit: pañca = five). An explanation of the terms follows.
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