Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 25 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, 07:20 here. Shashthi ended at 07:15 Thu, before it. Saptami ends at 08:49, 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 Thu, before sunrise at 07:19 Thu, and ends at 08:49, after the next sunrise at 07:20. Both days read Saptami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 24 Oct ran from sunset 18:08 Thu to sunrise 07:20, 13 h 12 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:20 to 18:06, 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 night here, 18:06 to 07:22 Sat, 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 270°. It leaves at 00:42 Sat, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 187.6° + 270.9° = 458.5°, one full turn and 98.5°. 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 21:42, then Shula.

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 ended at 20:07 Thu, when the lead reached 78°; Vanija runs until 08:49.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:20 to 07:22 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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 206.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2020; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1885.