Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 19 May 1995

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 228°–240° is the 20th, Krishna Panchami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:40 here. Chaturthi ended at 10:37 Thu, before it. Panchami ends at 07:50, when the lead reaches 240°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 15 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 07:50 and ended at 05:38 Sat, between the sunrises of 05:40 and 05:39 Sat. Friday reads Panchami and Saturday reads Saptami: Shashthi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 18 May ran from sunset 20:11 Thu to sunrise 05:40, 9 h 29 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:40 to 20:12, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 49 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:12 to 05:39 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 10 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 Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 270°. It leaves at 18:02, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 33.8° + 272.6° = 306.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 05:58, then Shukla.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Panchami is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava ended at 21:10 Thu, when the lead reached 234°; Taitila runs until 07:50.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:40 to 05:39 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Mesha gives Vaishakha. The Sun enters Vrishabha on 15 May, inside the month. The next new moon, 29 May, finds it in Vrishabha and begins Jyeshtha.

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 29 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha here, and Vaishakha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 31 Mar 1995, 06:08 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 47.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2052; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1917.