Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 18 Sep 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, 07:42 here. Shashthi ended at 07:00, before it. Saptami ends at 08:59 Wed, when the lead reaches 84°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 11 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 07:00, before sunrise at 07:42, and ends at 08:59 Wed, after the next sunrise at 07:43 Wed. Both days read Saptami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:07, came before Shashthi ended at 07:30: this day reads Shashthi.

Sevan · UTC+5

Sunrise here, 07:42, came after Shashthi ended at 07:00: this day reads Saptami.

The night of Mon 17 Sep ran from sunset 20:06 Mon to sunrise 07:42, 11 h 36 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:42 to 20:04, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:04 to 07:43 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 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′. Anuradha spans 213°20′–226°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 220°. It leaves at 14:41, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 150.9° + 223.2° = 374.1°, one full turn and 14.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 06:58 Wed, then Ayushmana.

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 runs until 20:03, when the lead reaches 78°; Vanija until 08:59 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:42 to 07:43 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 11 Oct, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 11 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada. This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada in both counts.

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 176.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.