Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sun 15 Aug 2004

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 05:09 on Sun 15 Aug to 06:23 on Mon 16 Aug, so it holds sunrise only on Sun 15 Aug, at 07:10. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:10 here. Chaturdashi ended at 05:09, before it. Amavasya ends at 06:23 Mon, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sat 14 Aug ran from sunset 20:58 Sat to sunrise 07:10, 10 h 12 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 40 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:10 to 20:57, 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 night here, 20:57 to 07:11 Mon, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Ashlesha spans 106°40′–120°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 106°40′. It leaves at 07:09 Mon, for Magha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 118.7° + 107.6° = 226.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 07:50, then Variyana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada runs until 17:49, when the lead reaches 354°; Nagava until 06:23 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:10 to 07:11 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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 16 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

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 142° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2061; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1926.