Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 30 Jul 2004

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 156°–168° is the 14th, Shukla Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:55 here. Trayodashi ended at 06:07, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 02:33 Sat, when the lead reaches 168°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Jul, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:41, came before Trayodashi ended at 06:37: this day reads Trayodashi. Chaturdashi ends at 03:03 Sat, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Chaturdashi: it is kshaya.

Sevan · UTC+5

Sunrise here, 06:55, came after Trayodashi ended at 06:07: this day reads Chaturdashi.

The night of Thu 29 Jul ran from sunset 21:17 Thu to sunrise 06:55, 9 h 38 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:55 to 21:16, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 47 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:16 to 06:56 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 12 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 2 at 256°40′. It leaves at 17:52, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 103.3° + 259.8° = 363.1°, one full turn and 3.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 22:13, then Priti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 16:20, when the lead reaches 162°; Vanija until 02:33 Sat.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:55 to 06:56 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 Jul 16:23 Sat to 16 Aug 06:23 Mon the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 16 Aug 16:18 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 Jul, with the Sun in Karka, began Shravana (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 2004, 02:41 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 126.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2061; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1926.