Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sat 28 Sep 2002

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:52 here. Panchami ended at 07:00 Fri, before it. Shashthi ends at 08:42, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 21 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 07:00 Fri, before sunrise at 07:51 Fri, and ends at 08:42, after the next sunrise at 07:52. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Fri 27 Sep ran from sunset 19:49 Fri to sunrise 07:52, 12 h 3 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:52 to 19:47, 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 night here, 19:47 to 07:53 Sun, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Rohini spans 40°00′–53°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 50°. It leaves at 09:26, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 160.9° + 52.5° = 213.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 07:29 Sun, then Variyana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 19:55 Fri, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 08:42.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:52 to 07:53 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 6 Oct, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 13 Apr 2002, 00:21 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 162.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2059; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1924.