Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 5 Aug 2005

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, 07:00 here. Chaturdashi ended at 05:39 Thu, before it. Amavasya ends at 08:04, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 21 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Amavasya began at 05:39 Thu, before sunrise at 06:59 Thu, and ends at 08:04, after the next sunrise at 07:00. Both days read Amavasya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 4 Aug ran from sunset 21:11 Thu to sunrise 07:00, 9 h 49 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 39 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:00 to 21:10, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 46 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:10 to 07:01 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 13 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 06:37 Sat, for Magha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 108.8° + 108.3° = 217.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 00:48 Sat, 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 ended at 18:51 Thu, when the lead reached 354°; Nagava runs until 08:04.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:00 to 07:01 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 5 Aug, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 5 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana here, and Ashadha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 9 Apr 2005, 01:32 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 113.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2062; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1927.