Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 6 Jun 1961

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 264°–276° is the 23rd, Krishna Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:29 here. Saptami ended at 14:16 Mon, before it. Ashtami ends at 12:24, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 30 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 5 Jun ran from sunset 20:26 Mon to sunrise 05:29, 9 h 3 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:29 to 20:27, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 52 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:27 to 05:29 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 7 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′. Purva Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 323°20′. It leaves at 21:32, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 51.8° + 324.1° = 375.9°, one full turn and 15.9°. 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 23:00, then Ayushmana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 01:18, when the lead reached 270°; Kaulava runs until 12:24.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:29 to 05:29 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 14 May 20:54 Sun to 13 Jun 09:16 Tue the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 14 Jun 19:29 Wed, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha 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 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) here, and Jyeshtha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 16 Mar 1961, 22:50 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 79.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2018; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1883.