Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 2 Jan 1902

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 264°–276° is the 23rd, Krishna Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:23 here. Saptami ended at 06:17 Wed, before it. Ashtami ends at 08:07, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 25 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 06:17 Wed, before sunrise at 07:23 Wed, and ends at 08:07, after the next sunrise at 07:23. Both days read Ashtami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 1 Jan ran from sunset 16:43 Wed to sunrise 07:23, 14 h 40 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 58 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:23 to 16:44, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 10 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 16:44 to 07:23 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 49 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 173°20′. It leaves at 08:48 Fri, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 258.4° + 174° = 432.4°, one full turn and 72.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 21:25, then Sukarma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 19:07 Wed, when the lead reached 270°; Kaulava runs until 08:07.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:23 to 07:23 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the rashi the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 15 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 10 Jan, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

A purnimanta month runs from full moon to full moon, so its waning half comes first. It shares its name with the amanta month that its second half falls in: the new moon of 10 Jan, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 1901, 15:52 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 281.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1958; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1823.