Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 10 Mar 2005

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 15:58 on Wed 9 Mar to 13:10 on Thu 10 Mar, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 10 Mar, at 07:19. 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, 07:19 here. Chaturdashi ended at 15:58 Wed, before it. Amavasya ends at 13:10, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 24 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 9 Mar ran from sunset 19:00 Wed to sunrise 07:19, 12 h 19 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:19 to 19:01, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:01 to 07:18 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 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 Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 320°. It leaves at 01:26 Fri, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 325.7° + 322.4° = 648.1°, one full turn and 288.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 15:20, then Shubha.

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 ended at 02:32, when the lead reached 354°; Nagava runs until 13:10.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:19 to 07:18 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 12 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 10 Mar, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 10 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna here, and Magha 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 349° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2061; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1926.