Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 13 Jan 1983

Lohri’s bonfire is lit on the evening before Makar Sankranti. The Sun enters Makara at 12:50 Fri, and Makar Sankranti is on Fri 14 Jan: Thu 13 Jan. No text giving Lohri’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Lohri: every date in Sevan

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya holds both sunrises, 08:22 on Thu 13 Jan and 08:22 on Fri 14 Jan. Over two sunrises the Nirnayasindhu takes the first: Thu 13 Jan. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:22 here. Chaturdashi ended at 06:23, before it. Amavasya ends at 09:07 Fri, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 30 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Amavasya began at 06:23, before sunrise at 08:22, and ends at 09:07 Fri, after the next sunrise at 08:22 Fri. Both days read Amavasya: 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 Chaturdashi ended at 07:53: this day reads Chaturdashi.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 08:22, came after Chaturdashi ended at 06:23: this day reads Amavasya.

The night of Wed 12 Jan ran from sunset 17:53 Wed to sunrise 08:22, 14 h 29 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 57 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:22 to 17:54, 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, 17:54 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′. Purva Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 256°40′. It leaves at 02:39 Fri, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 268.8° + 257.7° = 526.5°, one full turn and 166.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 21:13, then Harshana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada runs until 19:45, when the lead reaches 354°; Nagava until 09:07 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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 16 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 14 Jan, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 14 Jan, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 1982, 14:17 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 288° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2039; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1904.