Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 23 Sep 1987

Ghatasthapana is done in pratahkala, the first fifth of the day. Pratipada runs from 08:08 on Wed 23 Sep to 08:57 on Thu 24 Sep, touching pratahkala on both mornings. The Dharmasindhu takes the morning it holds more of: Wed 23 Sep.

Sharad Navratri: 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, 07:47 here. Chaturdashi ended at 06:51 Tue, before it. Amavasya ends at 08:08, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 7 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Amavasya began at 06:51 Tue, before sunrise at 07:46 Tue, and ends at 08:08, after the next sunrise at 07:47. Both days read Amavasya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Tue 22 Sep ran from sunset 19:58 Tue to sunrise 07:47, 11 h 49 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:47 to 19:56, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:56 to 07:48 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 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′. Uttara Phalguni spans 146°40′–160°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 153°20′. It leaves at 16:02, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 155.9° + 155.7° = 311.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 22:45, then Brahma.

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 ended at 19:33 Tue, when the lead reached 354°; Nagava runs until 08:08.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:47 to 07:48 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 23 Sep, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 23 Sep, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina here, and Bhadrapada in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 29 Mar 1987, 17:45 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 171.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2044; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1909.