Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sat 13 Jan 2007

Lohri’s bonfire is lit on the evening before Makar Sankranti. The Sun enters Makara at 16:37 Sun, and Makar Sankranti is on Sun 14 Jan: Sat 13 Jan. No text giving Lohri’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Lohri: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 288°–300° is the 25th, Krishna Dashami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:22 here. Navami ended at 08:17, before it. Dashami ends at 09:59 Sun, when the lead reaches 300°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 3 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dashami began at 08:17, before sunrise at 08:22, and ends at 09:59 Sun, after the next sunrise at 08:21 Sun. Both days read Dashami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:15, came before Navami ended at 09:47: this day reads Navami.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 08:22, came after Navami ended at 08:17: this day reads Dashami.

The night of Fri 12 Jan ran from sunset 17:53 Fri to sunrise 08:22, 14 h 29 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 57 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:22 to 17:55, 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 night here, 17:55 to 08:21 Sun, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 196°40′. It leaves at 14:58, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 268.6° + 196.7° = 465.3°, one full turn and 105.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 93°20′–106°40′ is the 8th, Dhriti. It ends at 10:52, then Shula.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dashami is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija runs until 21:13, when the lead reaches 294°; Vishti until 09:59 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:22 to 08:21 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 19 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha 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 284° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2063; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1928.