Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sun 12 Jan 1941

Lohri’s bonfire is lit on the evening before Makar Sankranti. The Sun enters Makara at 17:19 Mon, and Makar Sankranti is on Mon 13 Jan: Sun 12 Jan. No text giving Lohri’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Lohri: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 156°–168° is the 14th, Shukla Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:22 here. Trayodashi ended at 14:46 Sat, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 14:42, when the lead reaches 168°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 28 Dec, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Sat 11 Jan ran from sunset 16:53 Sat to sunrise 07:22, 14 h 29 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 57 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:22 to 16:54, 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 night here, 16:54 to 07:22 Mon, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Ardra spans 66°40′–80°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 70°. It leaves at 20:22, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 268.6° + 72.9° = 341.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 333°20′–346°40′ is the 26th, Indra. It ends at 16:16, then Vaidhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 02:49, when the lead reached 162°; Vanija runs until 14:42.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:22 to 07:22 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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 13 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 27 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 28 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 7 Apr 1940, 23:18 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 273.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1997; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1862.