Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 13 Oct 2011

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 180°–192° is the 16th, Krishna Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:08 here. Purnima ended at 07:05 Wed, before it. Pratipada ends at 09:37, when the lead reaches 192°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 12 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 07:05 Wed, before sunrise at 08:07 Wed, and ends at 09:37, after the next sunrise at 08:08. Both days read Pratipada: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 12 Oct ran from sunset 19:25 Wed to sunrise 08:08, 12 h 43 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:08 to 19:23, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:23 to 08:09 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 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 3 at 6°40′. It leaves at 21:30, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 175.4° + 6.7° = 182.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 16:34, then Vajra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 20:21 Wed, when the lead reached 186°; Kaulava runs until 09:37.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:08 to 08:09 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 27 Oct, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 Oct, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika here, and Ashwina 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 185.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2068; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1933.