Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 16 Feb 2009

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 252°–264° is the 22nd, Krishna Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:52 here. Shashthi ended at 11:24 Sun, before it. Saptami ends at 12:42, when the lead reaches 264°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 9 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sun 15 Feb ran from sunset 18:35 Sun to sunrise 07:52, 13 h 17 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 53 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:52 to 18:36, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:36 to 07:51 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 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′. Vishakha spans 200°00′–213°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 203°20′. It leaves at 23:34, for Anuradha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 303.6° + 205.4° = 509°, one full turn and 149°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 146°40′–160°00′ is the 12th, Dhruva. It ends at 03:56 Tue, then Vyaghata.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti ended at 23:58 Sun, when the lead reached 258°; Bava runs until 12:42.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:52 to 07:51 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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 25 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna here, and Magha in the amanta count.

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 310.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2065; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1930.