Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 25 Feb 2009

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 0°–12° is the 1st, Shukla Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:39 here. Amavasya ended at 05:35, before it. Pratipada ends at 06:08 Thu, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 25 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:50, came before Amavasya ended at 07:05: this day reads Amavasya.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 07:39, came after Amavasya ended at 05:35: this day reads Pratipada.

The night of Tue 24 Feb ran from sunset 18:45 Tue to sunrise 07:39, 12 h 54 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:39 to 18:46, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:46 to 07:38 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 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′. Shatabhisha spans 306°40′–320°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 313°20′. It leaves at 19:36, for Purva Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 312.7° + 313.7° = 626.4°, one full turn and 266.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 08:11, then Siddha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Kinstughna and the second Bava. Kinstughna runs until 17:55, when the lead reaches 6°; Bava until 06:08 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:39 to 07:38 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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 26 Mar, 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 25 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna 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 319.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2065; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1930.