Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 24 Oct 1963

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 72°–84° is the 7th, Shukla Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:19 here. Shashthi ended at 07:15, before it. Saptami ends at 08:49 Fri, when the lead reaches 84°. 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. Saptami began at 07:15, before sunrise at 07:19, and ends at 08:49 Fri, after the next sunrise at 07:20 Fri. Both days read Saptami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:27, came before Shashthi ended at 08:45: this day reads Shashthi.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 07:19, came after Shashthi ended at 07:15: this day reads Saptami.

The night of Wed 23 Oct ran from sunset 18:09 Wed to sunrise 07:19, 13 h 10 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:19 to 18:08, 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, 18:08 to 07:20 Fri, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Purva Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 256°40′. It leaves at 23:02, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 186.6° + 258.7° = 445.3°, one full turn and 85.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 21:53, then Dhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 20:07, when the lead reaches 78°; Vanija until 08:49 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:19 to 07:20 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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 205.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2020; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1885.