Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 15 Nov 1963

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:45 here. Trayodashi ended at 05:49 Thu, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 08:16, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Nov, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturdashi began at 05:49 Thu, before sunrise at 07:44 Thu, and ends at 08:16, after the next sunrise at 07:45. Both days read Chaturdashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 14 Nov ran from sunset 17:44 Thu to sunrise 07:45, 14 h 1 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 56 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:45 to 17:43, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 14 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:43 to 07:46 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 45 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 193°20′. It leaves at 14:53, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 208.7° + 196.5° = 405.2°, one full turn and 45.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 40°00′–53°20′ is the 4th, Saubhagya. It ends at 22:58, then Shobhana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti ended at 19:01 Thu, when the lead reached 342°; Shakuni runs until 08:16.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:45 to 07:46 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 16 Nov, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika (Adhik) here, and Kartika (Adhik) in the amanta count.

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 227.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2020; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1885.