Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 25 Sep 2001

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 96°–108° is the 9th, Shukla Navami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:50 here. Ashtami ended at 03:11, before it. Navami ends at 04:59 Wed, when the lead reaches 108°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Mon 24 Sep ran from sunset 19:54 Mon to sunrise 07:50, 11 h 56 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:50 to 19:52, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:52 to 07:51 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 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′. Purva Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 253°20′. It leaves at 04:07 Wed, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 158.2° + 256.4° = 414.6°, one full turn and 54.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 53°20′–66°40′ is the 5th, Shobhana. It ends at 05:51 Wed, then Atiganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Navami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava runs until 16:01, when the lead reaches 102°; Kaulava until 04:59 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:50 to 07:51 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Sep 15:27 Mon to 17 Oct 00:23 Wed the Sun stayed in Kanya, entering Tula at 17 Oct 09:37 Wed, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashwina, before Ashwina 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 17 Sep, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 2001, 06:21 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 177.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2058; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1923.