Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 5 May 1953

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, 04:54 here. Panchami ended at 06:54 Mon, before it. Shashthi ends at 05:44, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 05:44 and ended at 04:13 Wed, between the sunrises of 04:54 and 04:53 Wed. Tuesday reads Shashthi and Wednesday reads Ashtami: Saptami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Mon 4 May ran from sunset 18:58 Mon to sunrise 04:54, 9 h 56 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 39 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:54 to 18:59, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 45 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:59 to 04:53 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 14 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 270°. It leaves at 17:48, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 21.1° + 272.6° = 293.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 02:03 Wed, then Shukla.

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 18:22 Mon, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 05:44.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:54 to 04:53 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 13 Apr 23:08 Mon to 13 May 08:05 Wed the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 14 May 10:41 Thu, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha 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 13 May, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) here, and Vaishakha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 1953, 14:04 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 49.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2010; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1875.