Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 27 Jun 1985

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, 06:31 here. Ashtami ended at 10:51 Wed, before it. Navami ends at 08:36, when the lead reaches 108°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 18 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dashami began at 08:36 and ended at 06:08 Fri, between the sunrises of 06:31 and 06:31 Fri. Thursday reads Navami and Friday reads Ekadashi: Dashami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Wed 26 Jun ran from sunset 21:34 Wed to sunrise 06:31, 8 h 57 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 35 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:31 to 21:34, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 52 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:34 to 06:31 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 7 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′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 176°40′. It leaves at 20:09, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 71.7° + 178.5° = 250.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 11:22, then Shiva.

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 ended at 21:45 Wed, when the lead reached 102°; Kaulava runs until 08:36.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:31 to 06:31 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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 18 Jul, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 18 Jun, with the Sun in Mithuna, began Ashadha. This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 1985, 15:58 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 94.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2042; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1907.