Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 1 Aug 1939

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 180°–192° is the 16th, Krishna Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:55 here. Purnima ended at 09:36 Mon, before it. Pratipada ends at 11:53, when the lead reaches 192°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 31 Jul ran from sunset 19:17 Mon to sunrise 04:55, 9 h 38 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:55 to 19:16, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 47 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:16 to 04:56 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 12 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′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 293°20′. It leaves at 07:02 Wed, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 104.9° + 293.7° = 398.6°, one full turn and 38.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 26°40′–40°00′ is the 3rd, Ayushmana. It ends at 07:25, then Saubhagya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 22:43 Mon, when the lead reached 186°; Kaulava runs until 11:53.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:55 to 04:56 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Jul 00:02 Mon to 15 Aug 06:53 Tue the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 16 Aug 22:26 Wed, 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 15 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: 21 Mar 1939, 04:49 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 128.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1996; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1861.