Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 20 Jul 1977

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, 05:45 here. Tritiya ended at 14:55 Tue, before it. Chaturthi ends at 14:55, when the lead reaches 48°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 16 Jul, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Tue 19 Jul ran from sunset 20:26 Tue to sunrise 05:45, 9 h 19 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:45 to 20:26, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 50 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:26 to 05:46 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 10 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′. Purva Phalguni spans 133°20′–146°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 136°40′. It leaves at 23:22, for Uttara Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 93.7° + 137.1° = 230.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 226°40′–240°00′ is the 18th, Variyana. It ends at 21:33, then Parigha.

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 ended at 02:58, when the lead reached 42°; Vishti runs until 14:55.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:45 to 05:46 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 16 Jul 12:36 Sat to 15 Aug 01:31 Mon the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 16 Aug 17:07 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 16 Jul, with the Sun in Karka, began Shravana (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 1977, 22:32 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 118.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2034; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1899.