Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 18 Apr 1934

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 48°–60° is the 5th, Shukla Panchami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:18 here. Chaturthi ended at 04:21, before it. Panchami ends at 06:12 Thu, when the lead reaches 60°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 14 Apr, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Panchami began at 04:21, before sunrise at 05:18, and ends at 06:12 Thu, after the next sunrise at 05:16 Thu. Both days read Panchami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:53, came before Chaturthi ended at 06:51: this day reads Chaturthi.

Sevan · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 05:18, came after Chaturthi ended at 04:21: this day reads Panchami.

The night of Tue 17 Apr ran from sunset 18:40 Tue to sunrise 05:18, 10 h 38 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:18 to 18:41, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 40 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:41 to 05:16 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 19 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′. Rohini spans 40°00′–53°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 50°. It leaves at 06:12, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 4.4° + 52.9° = 57.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 53°20′–66°40′ is the 5th, Shobhana. It ends at 22:26, then Atiganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Panchami is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 17:12, when the lead reaches 54°; Balava until 06:12 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:18 to 05:16 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 14 Apr 02:56 Sat to 13 May 15:30 Sun the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 14 May 13:45 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha 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 Apr, with the Sun in Mesha, began Vaishakha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 1934, 15:08 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 33.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1991; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1856.