Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sat 6 Oct 1973

Dussehra’s rites are done in aparahna, the fourth fifth of the day. Dashami runs from 06:11 on Sat 6 Oct to 08:03 on Sun 7 Oct, so only Saturday’s aparahna (13:57–16:15) 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, 07:01 here. Navami ended at 06:11, before it. Dashami ends at 08:03 Sun, when the lead reaches 120°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 26 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dashami began at 06:11, before sunrise at 07:01, and ends at 08:03 Sun, after the next sunrise at 07:02 Sun. Both days read Dashami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:16, came before Navami ended at 07:41: this day reads Navami.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 07:01, came after Navami ended at 06:11: this day reads Dashami.

The night of Fri 5 Oct ran from sunset 18:36 Fri to sunrise 07:01, 12 h 25 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:01 to 18:34, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:34 to 07:02 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 276°40′. It leaves at 11:47, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 169.2° + 277.6° = 446.8°, one full turn and 86.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 18:58, then Dhriti.

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 19:11, when the lead reaches 114°; Garaja until 08:03 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:01 to 07:02 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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 26 Oct, 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 26 Sep, 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: 3 Apr 1973, 15:45 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 179.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2030; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1895.