Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 6 Feb 2009

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 132°–144° is the 12th, Shukla Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:04 here. Ekadashi ended at 07:13, before it. Dwadashi ends at 04:11 Sat, when the lead reaches 144°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 26 Jan, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:06, came before Ekadashi ended at 08:43: this day reads Ekadashi. Dwadashi ends at 05:41 Sat, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Dwadashi: it is kshaya.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 08:04, came after Ekadashi ended at 07:13: this day reads Dwadashi.

The night of Thu 5 Feb ran from sunset 18:22 Thu to sunrise 08:04, 13 h 42 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 54 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:04 to 18:24, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 17 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:24 to 08:03 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 42 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 4 at 63°20′. It leaves at 09:09, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 293.5° + 66° = 359.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 08:48, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwadashi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 17:43, when the lead reaches 138°; Balava until 04:11 Sat.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:04 to 08:03 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 12 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 25 Feb, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 26 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, began Magha. This Shukla paksha reads Magha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 6 Apr 2008, 08:55 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 300.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2065; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1930.