Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 22 Feb 1972

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 84°–96° is the 8th, Shukla Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:45 here. Saptami ended at 10:18 Mon, before it. Ashtami ends at 08:27, when the lead reaches 96°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Navami began at 08:27 and ended at 07:01 Wed, between the sunrises of 07:45 and 07:44 Wed. Tuesday reads Ashtami and Wednesday reads Dashami: Navami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Mon 21 Feb ran from sunset 18:41 Mon to sunrise 07:45, 13 h 4 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:45 to 18:42, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:42 to 07:44 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 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′. Rohini spans 40°00′–53°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 43°20′. It leaves at 22:37, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 309.2° + 44.8° = 354°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 17:33, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti ended at 21:20 Mon, when the lead reached 90°; Bava runs until 08:27.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:45 to 07:44 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 15 Mar, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 1971, 23:23 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 327.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2028; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1893.