Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sun 18 Sep 2011

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, 07:43 here. Panchami ended at 02:19, before it. Shashthi ends at 04:27 Mon, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 12 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sat 17 Sep ran from sunset 20:06 Sat to sunrise 07:43, 11 h 37 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:43 to 20:04, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:04 to 07:43 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 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′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 30°. It leaves at 21:09, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 150.8° + 33.3° = 184.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 12:26, then Vajra.

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 runs until 15:26, when the lead reaches 246°; Vanija until 04:27 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:43 to 07:43 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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, 27 Sep, 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 27 Sep, 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: 3 Apr 2011, 19:32 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 161.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2068; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1933.