Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 9 Dec 1998

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:11 here. Panchami ended at 08:08 Tue, before it. Shashthi ends at 08:13, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 3 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 08:08 Tue, before sunrise at 08:10 Tue, and ends at 08:13, after the next sunrise at 08:11. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Tue 8 Dec ran from sunset 17:33 Tue to sunrise 08:11, 14 h 38 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 58 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:11 to 17:33, 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 night here, 17:33 to 08:12 Thu, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Magha spans 120°00′–133°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 123°20′. It leaves at 23:59, for Purva Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 233° + 125° = 358°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 11:36, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 20:04 Tue, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 08:13.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:11 to 08:12 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 16 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 Dec, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 19 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 28 Mar 1998, 07:13 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 249.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2055; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1920.