Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 27 Mar 2008

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 228°–240° is the 20th, Krishna Panchami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:51 here. Chaturthi ended at 05:37 Wed, before it. Panchami ends at 08:03, when the lead reaches 240°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 21 Mar, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Panchami began at 05:37 Wed, before sunrise at 06:53 Wed, and ends at 08:03, after the next sunrise at 06:51. Both days read Panchami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 26 Mar ran from sunset 19:18 Wed to sunrise 06:51, 11 h 33 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:51 to 19:19, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:19 to 06:50 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 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 15:42, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 342.8° + 222.3° = 565.1°, one full turn and 205.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 200°00′–213°20′ is the 16th, Siddhi. It ends at 22:09, then Vyatipata.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Panchami is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava ended at 18:49 Wed, when the lead reached 234°; Taitila runs until 08:03.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:51 to 06:50 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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 6 Apr, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 6 Apr, with the Sun in Meena, begins Chaitra. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Chaitra here, and Phalguna 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 368.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.