Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sun 13 Feb 1983

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 0°–12° is the 1st, Shukla Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:57 here. Amavasya ended at 04:31, before it. Pratipada ends at 06:33 Mon, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 13 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Sat 12 Feb ran from sunset 18:30 Sat to sunrise 07:57, 13 h 27 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 53 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:57 to 18:31, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 19 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:31 to 07:55 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 40 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′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 300°. It leaves at 17:35, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 300.3° + 301.8° = 602.1°, one full turn and 242.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 04:34 Mon, then Shiva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Kinstughna and the second Bava. Kinstughna runs until 17:35, when the lead reaches 6°; Bava until 06:33 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:57 to 07:55 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 13 Feb 04:31 to 14 Mar 21:43 Mon the Sun stayed in Kumbha, entering Meena at 14 Mar 22:44 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Phalguna, before Phalguna 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 13 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna (Adhik) in both counts.

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 319.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2039; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1904.