Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 17 May 1950

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 0°–12° is the 1st, Shukla Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:42 here. Amavasya ended at 03:54, before it. Pratipada ends at 06:14 Thu, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 03:54, before sunrise at 04:42, and ends at 06:14 Thu, after the next sunrise at 04:41 Thu. Both days read Pratipada: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:29, came before Amavasya ended at 06:24: this day reads Amavasya.

Sevan · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 04:42, came after Amavasya ended at 03:54: this day reads Pratipada.

The night of Tue 16 May ran from sunset 19:09 Tue to sunrise 04:42, 9 h 33 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:42 to 19:10, 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 night here, 19:10 to 04:41 Thu, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 30°. It leaves at 19:15, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 32.4° + 32.8° = 65.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 53°20′–66°40′ is the 5th, Shobhana. It ends at 07:23, then Atiganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Kinstughna and the second Bava. Kinstughna runs until 17:05, when the lead reaches 6°; Bava until 06:14 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:42 to 04:41 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Vrishabha gives Jyeshtha. The Sun enters Mithuna on 14 Jun, inside the month. The next new moon, 15 Jun, finds it in Mithuna and begins Ashadha.

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 17 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha. This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 18 Mar 1950, 18:20 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 58.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2007; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1872.