Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 4 Sep 1997

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 12°–24° is the 2nd, Shukla Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:29 here. Pratipada ended at 07:29 Wed, before it. Dwitiya ends at 10:06, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 2 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Wed 3 Sep ran from sunset 20:29 Wed to sunrise 07:29, 11 h 0 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:29 to 20:27, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:27 to 07:30 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 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′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 160°. It leaves at 09:19 Fri, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 137.8° + 160.6° = 298.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 23:03, then Shukla.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 20:48 Wed, when the lead reached 18°; Kaulava runs until 10:06.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:29 to 07:30 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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 16 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Oct, 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 2 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada. This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 7 Apr 1997, 16:01 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 143.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2054; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1919.