Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sat 14 Jan 1967

The Sun enters Makara at 10:25, between sunrise (08:22) and sunset (17:55). The Dharmasindhu’s punya kala is the 40 ghatis after the ingress, so the bath and gifts fall that day: Sat 14 Jan.

Makar Sankranti: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 36°–48° is the 4th, Shukla Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:22 here. Tritiya ended at 00:44, before it. Chaturthi ends at 02:41 Sun, when the lead reaches 48°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 10 Jan, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Fri 13 Jan ran from sunset 17:54 Fri to sunrise 08:22, 14 h 28 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 57 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:22 to 17:55, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:55 to 08:21 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 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′. Shatabhisha spans 306°40′–320°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 306°40′. It leaves at 05:18 Sun, for Purva Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 269.9° + 309.5° = 579.4°, one full turn and 219.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 21:42, then Variyana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija runs until 13:39, when the lead reaches 42°; Vishti until 02:41 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:22 to 08:21 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the rashi the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 9 Feb, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 10 Jan, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 1966, 08:46 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 292.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2023; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1888.