Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 17 Jun 1969

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 12°–24° is the 2nd, Shukla Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:28 here. Pratipada ended at 05:27 Mon, before it. Dwitiya ends at 07:53, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwitiya began at 05:27 Mon, before sunrise at 05:28 Mon, and ends at 07:53, after the next sunrise at 05:28. Both days read Dwitiya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Mon 16 Jun ran from sunset 20:32 Mon to sunrise 05:28, 8 h 56 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 35 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:28 to 20:32, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 53 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:32 to 05:28 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 7 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′. Punarvasu spans 80°00′–93°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 83°20′. It leaves at 22:01, for Pushya.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 62.3° + 85.2° = 147.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 146°40′–160°00′ is the 12th, Dhruva. It ends at 05:03 Wed, then Vyaghata.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 18:39 Mon, when the lead reached 18°; Kaulava runs until 07:53.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:28 to 05:28 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 15 Jun 03:08 Sun to 14 Jul 18:11 Mon the Sun stayed in Mithuna, entering Karka at 16 Jul 07:40 Wed, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashadha, before Ashadha 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 15 Jun, with the Sun in Mithuna, began Ashadha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 18 Mar 1969, 08:51 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 88.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2026; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1891.