Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 5 Oct 2001

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:00 here. Dwitiya ended at 21:40 Thu, before it. Tritiya ends at 22:34, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 2 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 4 Oct ran from sunset 19:37 Thu to sunrise 08:00, 12 h 23 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:00 to 19:35, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:35 to 08:01 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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′. Bharani spans 13°20′–26°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 16°40′. It leaves at 02:22 Sat, for Krittika.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 168.1° + 17° = 185.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 10:48, then Vajra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija runs until 10:10, when the lead reaches 210°; Vishti until 22:34.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:00 to 08:01 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina (Adhik) here, and Ashwina (Adhik) in the amanta count.

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 187.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2058; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1923.