Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 15 Jan 1996

The Sun enters Makara at 20:53 Sun, in the night after sunset (17:55 Sun). The Dharmasindhu then puts the punya kala on the next day: Mon 15 Jan.

Makar Sankranti: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 276°–288° is the 24th, Krishna Navami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:21 here. Ashtami ended at 12:30 Sun, before it. Navami ends at 11:26, when the lead reaches 288°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 6 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sun 14 Jan ran from sunset 17:55 Sun to sunrise 08:21, 14 h 26 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 57 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:21 to 17:56, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:56 to 08:21 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 196°40′. It leaves at 13:50, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 270.5° + 196.8° = 467.3°, one full turn and 107.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 04:42 Tue, then Ganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Navami is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 00:04, when the lead reached 282°; Garaja runs until 11:26.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:21 to 08:21 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 20 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 20 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha 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 284.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2052; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1917.