Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 29 Oct 1963

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 132°–144° is the 12th, Shukla Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:25 here. Ekadashi ended at 06:56, before it. Dwadashi ends at 04:26 Wed, when the lead reaches 144°. 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, 06:30, came before Ekadashi ended at 08:26: this day reads Ekadashi. Dwadashi ends at 05:56 Wed, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Dwadashi: it is kshaya.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 07:25, came after Ekadashi ended at 06:56: this day reads Dwadashi.

The night of Mon 28 Oct ran from sunset 18:02 Mon to sunrise 07:25, 13 h 23 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 53 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:25 to 18:01, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 19 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:01 to 07:26 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 40 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 23:11, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 191.6° + 323.9° = 515.5°, one full turn and 155.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 146°40′–160°00′ is the 12th, Dhruva. It ends at 14:26, then Vyaghata.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwadashi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 17:46, when the lead reaches 138°; Balava until 04:26 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:25 to 07:26 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 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 210.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2020; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1885.