Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 17 May 2006

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 216°–228° is the 19th, Krishna Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:42 here. Tritiya ended at 10:06 Tue, before it. Chaturthi ends at 08:46, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 13 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 16 May ran from sunset 21:10 Tue to sunrise 06:42, 9 h 32 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:42 to 21:11, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:11 to 06:41 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 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 Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 256°40′. It leaves at 20:04, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 32.1° + 259° = 291.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 10:23, then Shubha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava ended at 21:28 Tue, when the lead reached 222°; Balava runs until 08:46.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:42 to 06:41 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Mesha gives Vaishakha. The Sun enters Vrishabha on 15 May, inside the month. The next new moon, 27 May, finds it in Vrishabha and begins Jyeshtha.

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 27 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha here, and Vaishakha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 29 Mar 2006, 15:15 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 47.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2063; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1928.