Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 16 Dec 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, 08:16 here. Panchami ended at 20:06 Thu, before it. Shashthi ends at 19:04, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 10 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 15 Dec ran from sunset 17:33 Thu to sunrise 08:16, 14 h 43 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 58 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:16 to 17:34, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 9 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:34 to 08:17 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 50 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′. Magha spans 120°00′–133°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 123°20′. It leaves at 20:56, for Purva Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 239.8° + 126.1° = 365.9°, one full turn and 5.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 20:22, then Priti.

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 07:38, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 19:04.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:16 to 08:17 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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 16 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 24 Dec, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 24 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha 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 250.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2068; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1933.