This large city of Maharashtra, Amravati, is situated at an altitude of 343 meters and 1125 feet from, above the sea level. City Amravati, as an administrative centre of both Amravati District and Amravati Division, is located only 156 Km away from the Nagpur, towards the west direction.
The adjacency of the passes and the hilly region, to the city, adds some various features, to the geographical structure of the place. This hills actually splits and distinguishes the cotton- growing region of the city, by keeping the Purna basin to the western direction and Wardha basin to the eastern direction. Without mentioning the existence of two lakes of the city, Chhatri Talao and Wadali Talao, and two hills in the eastern part of the city, Pohara and Chirodi, the depiction of the geography of Amravati will remain incomplete.
The Islam and Buddhist population respectively with 23.73% and 12.87%, occupies the second nd the third largest religious population of the city. Besides these, Hinduism stands first with 61.83% population, Jainism, 0.88%, Christianity 0.39% and Sikhism .015% there.
About the Panchang
The Panchang (Panjika) is the Hindu almanac. It is used to choose auspicious times (shubh muhurat) for important events
— marriage, naming a baby, starting a business or entering a new home — and to identify inauspicious periods
that are best avoided. Festivals and pujas are also scheduled by it: Lakshmi Puja falls on Purnima tithi, for example,
and Durga Puja on Saptami.
The name means “five limbs”: Tithi, Vara (weekday), Nakshatra,
Yoga and Karana. This page calculates them for the chosen city and date, together with
sunrise, sunset and the Moon's phase. Timings depend on the location, so they differ from city to city.
Tithi and Paksha
A tithi is the time it takes for the Moon to move 12° ahead of the Sun, so there are 30 tithis in a lunar month:
Pratipada, Dwitiya, Tritiya, Chaturthi, Panchami, Shashthi, Saptami, Ashtami, Navami, Dashami, Ekadashi, Dwadashi,
Trayodashi, Chaturdashi and Purnima in the bright half (Shukla Paksha), and the same fifteen ending in Amavasya in the
dark half (Krishna Paksha).
Karana and Yoga
Each tithi has two karanas: the movable Bava, Balava, Kaulava, Taitila, Gara, Vanija and Vishti (Bhadra), and the fixed
Shakuni, Chatushpada, Naga and Kimstughna. There are 27 yogas, found by adding the longitudes of the Sun and Moon and
dividing by 13°20′: Vishkambha, Priti, Ayushman, Saubhagya, Shobhana, Atiganda, Sukarma, Dhriti, Shoola,
Ganda, Vriddhi, Dhruva, Vyaghata, Harshana, Vajra, Siddhi, Vyatipata, Variyana, Parigha, Shiva, Siddha, Sadhya, Shubha,
Shukla, Brahma, Indra and Vaidhriti.
Before starting a journey or anything important, prefer the auspicious times above and avoid Rahu Kaal,
Yamaganda, Gulika Kaal, Dur Muhurta and Mrityu periods.