Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 18 May 1923

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 12°–24° is the 2nd, Shukla Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:41 here. Pratipada ended at 03:28 Thu, before it. Dwitiya ends at 04:56, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 16 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwitiya began at 03:28 Thu, before sunrise at 04:42 Thu, and ends at 04:56, after the next sunrise at 04:41. Both days read Dwitiya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 17 May ran from sunset 19:10 Thu to sunrise 04:41, 9 h 31 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:41 to 19:11, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:11 to 04:40 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 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′. Mrigashira spans 53°20′–66°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 56°40′. It leaves at 22:59, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 33.3° + 57.2° = 90.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 09:45, then Dhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 16:15 Thu, when the lead reached 18°; Kaulava runs until 04:56.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:41 to 04:40 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 16 May 01:38 Wed to 14 Jun 15:41 Thu the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 00:42 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha 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 16 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 1923, 15:51 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 60.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1980; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1845.