Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 17 May 1999

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, 06:42 here. Pratipada ended at 13:08 Sun, before it. Dwitiya ends at 09:23, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Tritiya began at 09:23 and ended at 05:59 Tue, between the sunrises of 06:42 and 06:41 Tue. Monday reads Dwitiya and Tuesday reads Chaturthi: Tritiya is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Sun 16 May ran from sunset 21:10 Sun to sunrise 06:42, 9 h 32 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:42 to 21:10, 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 night here, 21:10 to 06:41 Tue, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Mrigashira spans 53°20′–66°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 53°20′. It leaves at 02:28 Tue, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 31.9° + 54.3° = 86.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 17:22, then Dhriti.

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 23:14 Sun, when the lead reached 18°; Kaulava runs until 09:23.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:42 to 06:41 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 May 17:05 Sat to 14 Jun 00:02 Mon the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 14:08 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 15 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 1999, 22:47 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 59° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2056; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1921.