Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sun 28 Jul 1929

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:52 here. Panchami ended at 04:52 Sat, before it. Shashthi ends at 04:54, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 21 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 04:54 and ended at 04:24 Mon, between the sunrises of 04:52 and 04:53 Mon. Sunday reads Shashthi and Monday reads Ashtami: Saptami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Sat 27 Jul ran from sunset 19:20 Sat to sunrise 04:52, 9 h 32 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:52 to 19:19, 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, 19:19 to 04:53 Mon, 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′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 353°20′. It leaves at 16:32, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 101.6° + 353.6° = 455.2°, one full turn and 95.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 93°20′–106°40′ is the 8th, Dhriti. It ends at 00:16 Mon, then Shula.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 16:57 Sat, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 04:54.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:52 to 04:53 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 5 Aug, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 5 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana here, and Ashadha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 9 Apr 1929, 23:32 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 105° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1986; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1851.