While the solar system has extreme importance for astrology, which, it is claimed, governs a person\'s life as an individual or part of a social system, the sacred time continues to be reckoned by the lunar naksatra system. The lunar day (tithi), a 30th part of the lunar month, remains the basic unit. Thus, as the lunar month is only about 29 1/2 solar days, the tithi does not coincide with the natural day (ahoratra). The convention is that that tithi is in force for the natural day that happened to occur at the dawn of that day. Therefore, a tithi beginning after dawn one day and expiring before dawn the next day is eliminated, not being counted in that month, and there is a break in the day sequence.

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