Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 12 Aug 2009

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:07 here. Panchami ended at 13:03 Tue, before it. Shashthi ends at 13:02, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 6 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 11 Aug ran from sunset 21:03 Tue to sunrise 07:07, 10 h 4 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 40 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:07 to 21:01, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 44 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:01 to 07:08 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 15 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 3°20′. It leaves at 23:11, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 115.5° + 4.5° = 120°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 05:39 Thu, then Vriddhi.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 01:07, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 13:02.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:07 to 07:08 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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 16 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 20 Aug, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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 20 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada here, and Shravana in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 2009, 20:05 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 133.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2066; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1931.