Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sun 28 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, 05:22 here. Navami ended at 03:40 Sat, before it. Dashami ends at 06:07, 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 Sat, before sunrise at 05:21 Sat, and ends at 06:07, after the next sunrise at 05:22. Both days read Dashami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Sat 27 Aug ran from sunset 18:41 Sat to sunrise 05:22, 10 h 41 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:22 to 18:39, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:39 to 05:23 Mon, 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′. Mula spans 240°00′–253°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 250°. It leaves at 11:12, for Purva Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 130.8° + 250.4° = 381.2°, one full turn and 21.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 15:30, then Ayushmana.

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

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:22 to 05:23 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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 151.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2012; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1877.