Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 28 Oct 1999

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 216°–228° is the 19th, Krishna Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:24 here. Tritiya ended at 15:55 Wed, before it. Chaturthi ends at 12:45, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 25 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 27 Oct ran from sunset 19:03 Wed to sunrise 08:24, 13 h 21 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 53 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:24 to 19:02, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 19 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:02 to 08:25 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 40 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 02:00 Fri, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 190.4° + 55.9° = 246.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 19:07, then Shiva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava ended at 02:18, when the lead reached 222°; Balava runs until 12:45.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:24 to 08:25 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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 8 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 8 Nov, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika here, and Ashwina in the amanta count.

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 217.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2056; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1921.