Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sat 2 Jun 2007

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 180°–192° is the 16th, Krishna Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:31 here. Purnima ended at 06:03 Fri, before it. Pratipada ends at 07:10, when the lead reaches 192°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Jun, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 06:03 Fri, before sunrise at 06:31 Fri, and ends at 07:10, after the next sunrise at 06:31. Both days read Pratipada: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Fri 1 Jun ran from sunset 21:23 Fri to sunrise 06:31, 9 h 8 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:31 to 21:24, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 51 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:24 to 06:31 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 8 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′. Jyeshtha spans 226°40′–240°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 236°40′. It leaves at 08:37, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 47.2° + 238.9° = 286.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 19:20, then Shubha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 18:39 Fri, when the lead reached 186°; Kaulava runs until 07:10.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:31 to 06:31 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 May 00:27 Thu to 15 Jun 08:13 Fri the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 15:22 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha itself.

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 15 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) here, and Jyeshtha (Adhik) 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 73° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.