Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sat 7 Feb 1942

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, 07:04 here. Panchami ended at 10:05 Fri, before it. Shashthi ends at 08:37, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 08:37 and ended at 06:51 Sun, between the sunrises of 07:04 and 07:03 Sun. Saturday reads Shashthi and Sunday reads Ashtami: Saptami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Fri 6 Feb ran from sunset 17:23 Fri to sunrise 07:04, 13 h 41 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 54 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:04 to 17:24, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 17 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:24 to 07:03 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 42 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′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 183°20′. It leaves at 08:26, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 294.7° + 185.9° = 480.6°, one full turn and 120.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 03:31 Sun, then Vriddhi.

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 21:23 Fri, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 08:37.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:04 to 07:03 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 12 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 15 Feb, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna here, and Magha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 27 Mar 1941, 23:13 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 311° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1998; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1863.