Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sat 7 Aug 1920

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, 05:02 here. Saptami ended at 04:31, before it. Ashtami ends at 03:01 Sun, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:45, came before Saptami ended at 07:01: this day reads Saptami. Ashtami ends at 05:31 Sun, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Ashtami: it is kshaya.

Sevan · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 05:02, came after Saptami ended at 04:31: this day reads Ashtami.

The night of Fri 6 Aug ran from sunset 19:09 Fri to sunrise 05:02, 9 h 53 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 39 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:02 to 19:08, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 45 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:08 to 05:03 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 14 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′. Bharani spans 13°20′–26°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 13°20′. It leaves at 00:05 Sun, for Krittika.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 111.5° + 15.8° = 127.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 15:00, then Vriddhi.

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 runs until 15:50, when the lead reaches 270°; Kaulava until 03:01 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:02 to 05:03 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 Jul 23:24 Thu to 14 Aug 06:43 Sat the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 16 Aug 01:42 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana itself.

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 14 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 1920, 13:55 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 134.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1977; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1842.