Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 11 Oct 2007

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, 08:06 here. Chaturdashi ended at 07:46 Wed, before it. Amavasya ends at 10:00, 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 Wed, before sunrise at 08:04 Wed, and ends at 10:00, after the next sunrise at 08:06. Both days read Amavasya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 10 Oct ran from sunset 19:28 Wed to sunrise 08:06, 12 h 38 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:06 to 19:27, 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, 19:27 to 08:07 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 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 4 at 170°. It leaves at 09:36, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 173.5° + 172.6° = 346.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 333°20′–346°40′ is the 26th, Indra. It ends at 09:15, then Vaidhriti.

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

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:06 to 08:07 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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 199.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.