Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 12 Oct 1948

Dussehra’s rites are done in aparahna, the fourth fifth of the day. Dashami runs from 15:53 on Mon 11 Oct to 18:11 on Tue 12 Oct, so only Tuesday’s aparahna (12:54–15:09) falls within it.

Dussehra: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 108°–120° is the 10th, Shukla Dashami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:07 here. Navami ended at 15:53 Mon, before it. Dashami ends at 18:11, when the lead reaches 120°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 2 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Mon 11 Oct ran from sunset 17:26 Mon to sunrise 06:07, 12 h 41 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:07 to 17:25, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:25 to 06:08 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 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′. Shravana spans 280°00′–293°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 290°. It leaves at 12:41, for Dhanishtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 175.6° + 290.1° = 465.7°, one full turn and 105.7°. 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 08:03, then Shula.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dashami is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 05:00, when the lead reached 114°; Garaja runs until 18:11.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:07 to 06:08 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 16 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 2 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina. This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 9 Apr 1948, 16:16 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 179.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2005; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1870.