Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 15 Feb 1983

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 12°–24° is the 2nd, Shukla Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:54 here. Pratipada ended at 06:33 Mon, before it. Dwitiya ends at 08:12, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 13 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwitiya began at 06:33 Mon, before sunrise at 07:55 Mon, and ends at 08:12, after the next sunrise at 07:54. Both days read Dwitiya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Mon 14 Feb ran from sunset 18:33 Mon to sunrise 07:54, 13 h 21 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 53 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:54 to 18:34, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 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 07:53 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 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 Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 323°20′. It leaves at 21:52, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 302.3° + 326.1° = 628.4°, one full turn and 268.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 266°40′–280°00′ is the 21st, Siddha. It ends at 04:39 Wed, then Sadhya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 19:25 Mon, when the lead reached 18°; Kaulava runs until 08:12.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:54 to 07:53 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 13 Feb 04:31 Sun 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 321.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2039; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1904.