Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 30 Apr 2010

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 192°–204° is the 17th, Krishna Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:00 here. Pratipada ended at 15:41 Thu, before it. Dwitiya ends at 14:40, when the lead reaches 204°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 28 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 29 Apr ran from sunset 20:53 Thu to sunrise 07:00, 10 h 7 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 40 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:00 to 20:54, 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, 20:54 to 06:59 Sat, 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′. Anuradha spans 213°20′–226°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 213°20′. It leaves at 02:52 Sat, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 15.6° + 215.7° = 231.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 226°40′–240°00′ is the 18th, Variyana. It ends at 21:37, then Parigha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 03:06, when the lead reached 198°; Garaja runs until 14:40.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:00 to 06:59 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 14 Apr 17:28 Wed to 14 May 06:04 Fri the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 15 May 03:16 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha itself.

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 14 May, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) here, and Vaishakha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 16 Mar 2010, 01:01 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 44.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2067; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1932.