Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 5 Aug 1958

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, 06:00 here. Panchami ended at 03:35, before it. Shashthi ends at 06:08 Wed, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 30 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 03:35, before sunrise at 06:00, and ends at 06:08 Wed, after the next sunrise at 06:01 Wed. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Mon 4 Aug ran from sunset 20:12 Mon to sunrise 06:00, 9 h 48 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 39 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:00 to 20:11, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 46 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:11 to 06:01 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 13 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′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 346°40′. It leaves at 02:23 Wed, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 108.9° + 349.9° = 458.8°, one full turn and 98.8°. 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 20:42, then Shula.

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 runs until 16:50, when the lead reaches 246°; Vanija until 06:08 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:00 to 06:01 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 16 Jul 22:33 Wed to 15 Aug 07:33 Fri the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 16 Aug 20:17 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 15 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 1958, 13:49 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 132.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2015; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1880.