Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 4 Feb 2002

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 264°–276° is the 23rd, Krishna Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:06 here. Saptami ended at 06:12, before it. Ashtami ends at 05:02 Tue, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:07, came before Saptami ended at 07:42: this day reads Saptami. Ashtami ends at 06:32 Tue, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Ashtami: it is kshaya.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 08:06, came after Saptami ended at 06:12: this day reads Ashtami.

The night of Sun 3 Feb ran from sunset 18:20 Sun to sunrise 08:06, 13 h 46 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 55 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:06 to 18:21, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 16 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:21 to 08:05 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 43 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 193°20′. It leaves at 14:36, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 291.3° + 196.3° = 487.6°, one full turn and 127.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 17:31, then Vriddhi.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava runs until 17:33, when the lead reaches 270°; Kaulava until 05:02 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:06 to 08:05 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 12 Feb, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 12 Feb, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha 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 310.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2058; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1923.