Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 17 Oct 1972

Dussehra’s rites are done in aparahna, the fourth fifth of the day. Dashami runs from 06:09 on Tue 17 Oct to 05:54 on Wed 18 Oct, so only Tuesday’s aparahna (13:51–16:04) falls within it.

Dussehra: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 108°–120° is the 10th, Shukla Dashami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:12 here. Navami ended at 06:09, before it. Dashami ends at 05:54 Wed, when the lead reaches 120°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 7 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:23, came before Navami ended at 07:39: this day reads Navami.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 07:12, came after Navami ended at 06:09: this day reads Dashami.

The night of Mon 16 Oct ran from sunset 18:18 Mon to sunrise 07:12, 12 h 54 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:12 to 18:17, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:17 to 07:14 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′. Shravana spans 280°00′–293°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 286°40′. It leaves at 15:24, for Dhanishtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 180.4° + 288.9° = 469.3°, one full turn and 109.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 01:30 Wed, then Ganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dashami is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila runs until 18:08, when the lead reaches 114°; Garaja until 05:54 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:12 to 07:14 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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 16 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 6 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 7 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina. This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 1972, 15:34 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 208.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2029; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1894.