Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sat 27 Aug 1955

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, 05:21 here. Navami ended at 03:40, before it. Dashami ends at 06:07 Sun, when the lead reaches 120°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dashami began at 03:40, before sunrise at 05:21, and ends at 06:07 Sun, after the next sunrise at 05:22 Sun. Both days read Dashami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:56, came before Navami ended at 06:10: this day reads Navami.

Sevan · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 05:21, came after Navami ended at 03:40: this day reads Dashami.

The night of Fri 26 Aug ran from sunset 18:43 Fri to sunrise 05:21, 10 h 38 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:21 to 18:41, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 40 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:41 to 05:22 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 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′. Jyeshtha spans 226°40′–240°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 236°40′. It leaves at 08:14, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 129.8° + 238.6° = 368.4°, one full turn and 8.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 14:37, then Priti.

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 runs until 16:55, when the lead reaches 114°; Garaja until 06:07 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:21 to 05:22 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Aug 22:58 Wed to 16 Sep 09:19 Fri the Sun stayed in Simha, entering Kanya at 17 Sep 00:46 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Bhadrapada, before Bhadrapada 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 17 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 24 Mar 1955, 06:42 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 150.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2012; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1877.