Indian almanacs listing planetary positions are traditionally called panchangas. Each day they give the tithi, the weekday (vara), the nakshatra, the yoga and the karana: the five limbs.
Their main practical use is choosing a muhurta, an auspicious moment for an event.
Two of the limbs in brief: a tithi is a lunar day, the time in which the Moon-Sun longitude gap changes by 12 degrees, and a karana is half a tithi.
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