Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 11 Apr 2007

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 264°–276° is the 23rd, Krishna Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:28 here. Saptami ended at 11:02 Tue, before it. Ashtami ends at 10:54, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 2 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 10 Apr ran from sunset 20:33 Tue to sunrise 07:28, 10 h 55 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 43 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:28 to 20:34, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 38 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:34 to 07:27 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 21 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 270°. It leaves at 23:29, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 356.9° + 271.1° = 628°, one full turn and 268°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 266°40′–280°00′ is the 21st, Siddha. It ends at 03:35 Thu, then Sadhya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 23:04 Tue, when the lead reached 270°; Kaulava runs until 10:54.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:28 to 07:27 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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 14 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 17 Apr, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 17 Apr, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha here, and Chaitra in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 2007, 06:42 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 22.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.