Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 11 Jan 1979

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 156°–168° is the 14th, Shukla Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:22 here. Trayodashi ended at 06:53, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 08:52 Fri, when the lead reaches 168°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 29 Dec, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturdashi began at 06:53, before sunrise at 08:22, and ends at 08:52 Fri, after the next sunrise at 08:22 Fri. Both days read Chaturdashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:15, came before Trayodashi ended at 08:23: this day reads Trayodashi.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 08:22, came after Trayodashi ended at 06:53: this day reads Chaturdashi.

The night of Wed 10 Jan ran from sunset 17:51 Wed to sunrise 08:22, 14 h 31 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 58 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:22 to 17:52, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:52 to 08:22 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 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′. Mrigashira spans 53°20′–66°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 63°20′. It leaves at 14:41, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 266.8° + 63.5° = 330.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 320°00′–333°20′ is the 25th, Brahma. It ends at 13:59, then Indra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 19:50, when the lead reaches 162°; Vanija until 08:52 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:22 to 08:22 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 28 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 29 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 7 Apr 1978, 19:15 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 272.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2035; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1900.