Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 5 Jun 2018

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, 05:30 here. Panchami ended at 05:22 Mon, before it. Shashthi ends at 07:46, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Shashthi began at 05:22 Mon, before sunrise at 05:30 Mon, and ends at 07:46, after the next sunrise at 05:30. Both days read Shashthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Mon 4 Jun ran from sunset 20:26 Mon to sunrise 05:30, 9 h 4 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:30 to 20:26, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 52 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:26 to 05:30 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 8 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′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 300°. It leaves at 16:26, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 50.3° + 301.2° = 351.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 21:20, then Vishkambha.

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 18:36 Mon, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 07:46.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:30 to 05:30 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 May 15:47 Tue to 13 Jun 23:43 Wed the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 10:06 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha itself.

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 13 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) here, and Jyeshtha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2018, 17:11 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 77.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.