Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 6 Sep 2004

Krishna’s birth is celebrated at nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Ashtami runs from 07:01 on Mon 6 Sep to 09:22 on Tue 7 Sep, so only Monday night’s nishitha (01:36 Tue–02:20 Tue) falls within it. Every reading takes that day.

Janmashtami: every date in Sevan

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, 07:32 here. Saptami ended at 07:01, before it. Ashtami ends at 09:22 Tue, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 30 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ashtami began at 07:01, before sunrise at 07:32, and ends at 09:22 Tue, after the next sunrise at 07:33 Tue. Both days read Ashtami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:01, came before Saptami ended at 07:31: this day reads Saptami.

Sevan · UTC+5

Sunrise here, 07:32, came after Saptami ended at 07:01: this day reads Ashtami.

The night of Sun 5 Sep ran from sunset 20:25 Sun to sunrise 07:32, 11 h 7 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:32 to 20:23, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:23 to 07:33 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 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 2 at 43°20′. It leaves at 02:02 Tue, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 139.9° + 44.2° = 184.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 12:21, then Vajra.

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 20:10, when the lead reaches 270°; Kaulava until 09:22 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:32 to 07:33 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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 16 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 14 Sep, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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 14 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada here, and Shravana 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 163.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2061; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1926.