Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 25 Jan 2007

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 72°–84° is the 7th, Shukla Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:16 here. Shashthi ended at 18:05 Wed, before it. Saptami ends at 15:59, when the lead reaches 84°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 19 Jan, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Wed 24 Jan ran from sunset 18:07 Wed to sunrise 08:16, 14 h 9 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 56 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:16 to 18:08, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 14 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:08 to 08:15 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 45 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 0°. It leaves at 05:55 Fri, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 280.8° + 0.6° = 281.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 03:06 Fri, then Shubha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 05:00, when the lead reached 78°; Vanija runs until 15:59.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:16 to 08:15 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 13 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 17 Feb, 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 19 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, began Magha. This Shukla paksha reads Magha 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 296.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2063; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1928.