Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 15 Jun 2007

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 11:04 on Thu 14 Jun to 08:13 on Fri 15 Jun, so it holds sunrise only on Fri 15 Jun, at 06:28. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:28 here. Chaturdashi ended at 11:04 Thu, before it. Amavasya ends at 08:13, when the lead reaches 360°. 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 08:13 and ended at 05:44 Sat, between the sunrises of 06:28 and 06:28 Sat. Friday reads Amavasya and Saturday reads Dwitiya: Pratipada is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 14 Jun ran from sunset 21:31 Thu to sunrise 06:28, 8 h 57 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 35 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:28 to 21:31, 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, 21:31 to 06:28 Sat, 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′. Mrigashira spans 53°20′–66°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 56°40′. It leaves at 19:48, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 59.6° + 58.7° = 118.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 09:06, then Ganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada ended at 21:36 Thu, when the lead reached 354°; Nagava runs until 08:13.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:28 to 06:28 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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 the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 15:22, 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 85.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.