Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 23 Oct 1963

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 60°–72° is the 6th, Shukla Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:18 here. Panchami ended at 05:08, before it. Shashthi ends at 07:15 Thu, when the lead reaches 72°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:26, came before Panchami ended at 06:38: this day reads Panchami.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 07:18, came after Panchami ended at 05:08: this day reads Shashthi.

The night of Tue 22 Oct ran from sunset 18:11 Tue to sunrise 07:18, 13 h 7 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:18 to 18:09, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 21 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:09 to 07:19 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 38 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 2 at 243°20′. It leaves at 20:42, for Purva Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 185.7° + 246.6° = 432.3°, one full turn and 72.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 21:33, then Sukarma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 18:15, when the lead reaches 66°; Taitila until 07:15 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:18 to 07:19 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Oct 16:42 Thu to 16 Nov 10:50 Sat the Sun stayed in Tula, entering Vrishchika at 16 Nov 14:39 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Kartika, before Kartika 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 Oct, with the Sun in Tula, began Kartika (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Kartika (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 1963, 16:09 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 204.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2020; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1885.