Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 25 Aug 2006

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 12°–24° is the 2nd, Shukla Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:20 here. Pratipada ended at 02:34, before it. Dwitiya ends at 05:10 Sat, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 24 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Thu 24 Aug ran from sunset 20:45 Thu to sunrise 07:20, 10 h 35 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:20 to 20:43, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 40 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:43 to 07:21 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 19 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 Phalguni spans 133°20′–146°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 140°. It leaves at 16:54, for Uttara Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 127.8° + 142° = 269.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 266°40′–280°00′ is the 21st, Siddha. It ends at 02:33 Sat, then Sadhya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava runs until 15:51, when the lead reaches 18°; Kaulava until 05:10 Sat.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:20 to 07:21 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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 22 Sep, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 24 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada. This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada in both counts.

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 143.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2063; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1928.