Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 21 Apr 1983

Rama’s birth is celebrated at madhyahna, the middle fifth of the day. Navami runs from 00:53 on Thu 21 Apr to 22:41 on Thu 21 Apr, so only Thursday’s madhyahna (12:38–15:20) falls within it. Every reading takes that day.

Rama Navami: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 96°–108° is the 9th, Shukla Navami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:13 here. Ashtami ended at 00:53, before it. Navami ends at 22:41, when the lead reaches 108°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 13 Apr, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Wed 20 Apr ran from sunset 20:43 Wed to sunrise 07:13, 10 h 30 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:13 to 20:44, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 41 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:44 to 07:12 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 18 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′. Pushya spans 93°20′–106°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 103°20′. It leaves at 07:52, for Ashlesha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 6.8° + 106.3° = 113.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 18:09, then Ganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Navami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava runs until 11:48, when the lead reaches 102°; Kaulava until 22:41.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:13 to 07:12 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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 14 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 13 May, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 Apr, with the Sun in Meena, began Chaitra. This Shukla paksha reads Chaitra in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 13 Apr 1983, 12:58 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 7.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2040; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1905.