Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 26 May 1988

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 108°–120° is the 10th, Shukla Dashami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:34 here. Navami ended at 13:29 Wed, before it. Dashami ends at 15:31, when the lead reaches 120°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 16 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Wed 25 May ran from sunset 21:18 Wed to sunrise 06:34, 9 h 16 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:34 to 21:19, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 50 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:19 to 06:34 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 9 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 4 at 156°40′. It leaves at 12:10, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 41.3° + 157.2° = 198.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 09:18, then Siddhi.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dashami is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 02:34, when the lead reached 114°; Garaja runs until 15:31.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:34 to 06:34 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 16 May 03:10 Mon to 14 Jun 14:13 Tue the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 14 Jun 18:30 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha 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 16 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 18 Mar 1988, 06:02 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 67.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2045; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1910.