Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 8 Mar 2013

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 312°–324° is the 27th, Krishna Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:23 here. Ekadashi ended at 06:28, before it. Dwadashi ends at 04:26 Sat, when the lead reaches 324°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 26 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:38, came before Ekadashi ended at 07:58: this day reads Ekadashi. Dwadashi ends at 05:56 Sat, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Dwadashi: it is kshaya.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 07:23, came after Ekadashi ended at 06:28: this day reads Dwadashi.

The night of Thu 7 Mar ran from sunset 18:58 Thu to sunrise 07:23, 12 h 25 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:23 to 18:59, 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 night here, 18:59 to 07:21 Sat, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 273°20′. It leaves at 13:53, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 323.7° + 276.2° = 599.9°, one full turn and 239.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 226°40′–240°00′ is the 18th, Variyana. It ends at 07:38, then Parigha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwadashi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 17:26, when the lead reaches 318°; Taitila until 04:26 Sat.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:23 to 07:21 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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 12 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 11 Mar, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 11 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna here, and Magha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2012, 18:37 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 345.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2069; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1934.