Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 7 Jun 1988

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 264°–276° is the 23rd, Krishna Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:29 here. Saptami ended at 00:24, before it. Ashtami ends at 22:20, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 6 Jun ran from sunset 21:27 Mon to sunrise 06:29, 9 h 2 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:29 to 21:28, 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, 21:28 to 06:29 Wed, 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′. Purva Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 320°. It leaves at 04:58 Wed, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 52.8° + 320.2° = 373°, one full turn and 13°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 07:02, then Priti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava runs until 11:21, when the lead reaches 270°; Kaulava until 22:20.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:29 to 06:29 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 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 14 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) here, and Jyeshtha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

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 78.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2045; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1910.