Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 10 Oct 2007

The shraddha for all ancestors is done in aparahna, the fourth fifth of the day. Amavasya runs from 07:46 on Wed 10 Oct to 10:00 on Thu 11 Oct, so only Wednesday’s aparahna (14:55–17:11) falls within it. No text giving Sarva Pitru Amavasya’s time was found; aparahna is Tithika’s convention.

Sarva Pitru Amavasya: every date in Sevan

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya holds both sunrises, 08:04 on Wed 10 Oct and 08:06 on Thu 11 Oct. Over two sunrises the Nirnayasindhu takes the first: Wed 10 Oct. 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, 08:04 here. Chaturdashi ended at 07:46, before it. Amavasya ends at 10:00 Thu, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 27 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Amavasya began at 07:46, before sunrise at 08:04, and ends at 10:00 Thu, after the next sunrise at 08:06 Thu. Both days read Amavasya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:18, came before Chaturdashi ended at 08:16: this day reads Chaturdashi.

Sevan · UTC+5

Sunrise here, 08:04, came after Chaturdashi ended at 07:46: this day reads Amavasya.

The night of Tue 9 Oct ran from sunset 19:30 Tue to sunrise 08:04, 12 h 34 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:04 to 19:28, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 25 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:28 to 08:06 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 34 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′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 160°. It leaves at 09:36 Thu, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 172.5° + 160.6° = 333.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 320°00′–333°20′ is the 25th, Brahma. It ends at 08:33, then Indra.

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 runs until 20:52, when the lead reaches 354°; Nagava until 10:00 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:04 to 08:06 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: 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 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina here, and Bhadrapada 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 198.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.