The jaggery city of Andhra Pradesh Anakapalle, shares its administration with the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, as it is located in the Visakhapatnam district. The total area of 23.28 km2 or 8.99 sq mi of the city Anakapalle is situated at 17.6913°N 83.0039°E coordinates. This Anakapalle stands at an elevation of 29 meter or 95 feet above the natural sea level. The Major River of the city, which fertilizes the land of Anakapalle, is Sarada.
The detail study of the 2011 census of the city will show that 83,851 people, which makes a percentage of 96.92, are Hindu. 1395 of them, means 1.61% are Muslim, which is the second major religion in Anakapalle. The rest of the population is divided among the Christian, sikh, Buddhist, Jain, and not specified religion, in the percentage of 0.97, 0.03, 0.01, 0.16 and 0.29 respectively. A deep statistics show that only 3 people at the time of 2011 census were of other religion, which could not be calculated as a percentage.
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.