Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 7 Jun 2007

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:29 here. Panchami ended at 07:40 Wed, before it. Shashthi ends at 06:48, when the lead reaches 252°. 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. Saptami began at 06:48 and ended at 05:30 Fri, between the sunrises of 06:29 and 06:29 Fri. Thursday reads Shashthi and Friday reads Ashtami: Saptami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Wed 6 Jun ran from sunset 21:27 Wed to sunrise 06:29, 9 h 2 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:29 to 21:27, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 52 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:27 to 06:29 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 7 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′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 303°20′. It leaves at 11:30, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 52° + 303.8° = 355.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 13:23, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 19:17 Wed, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 06:48.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:29 to 06:29 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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 77.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.