Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 1 Oct 2010

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 264°–276° is the 23rd, Krishna Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:56 here. Saptami ended at 21:17 Thu, before it. Ashtami ends at 20:17, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 23 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 30 Sep ran from sunset 19:44 Thu to sunrise 07:56, 12 h 12 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:56 to 19:42, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:42 to 07:57 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 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′. Ardra spans 66°40′–80°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 73°20′. It leaves at 19:42, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 163.8° + 73.4° = 237.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 226°40′–240°00′ is the 18th, Variyana. It ends at 12:38, then Parigha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava runs until 08:52, when the lead reaches 270°; Kaulava until 20:17.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:56 to 07:57 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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 7 Oct, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 7 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina here, and Bhadrapada 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 192.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2067; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1932.