Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 19 Oct 2004

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 60°–72° is the 6th, Shukla Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:15 here. Panchami ended at 20:45 Mon, before it. Shashthi ends at 18:20, when the lead reaches 72°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 14 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Mon 18 Oct ran from sunset 19:15 Mon to sunrise 08:15, 13 h 0 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:15 to 19:13, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:13 to 08:16 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 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′. Mula spans 240°00′–253°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 246°40′. It leaves at 16:15, for Purva Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 182.2° + 248.6° = 430.8°, one full turn and 70.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 22:48, then Sukarma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava ended at 07:32, when the lead reached 66°; Taitila runs until 18:20.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:15 to 08:16 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 12 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina. This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina 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 205.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2061; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1926.