Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 21 Mar 2019

Holi follows the tithi at sunrise. Pratipada runs from 05:42 on Thu 21 Mar to 02:22 on Fri 22 Mar, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 21 Mar, at 07:02.

Holi: every date in Sevan

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, 07:02 here. Purnima ended at 05:42, before it. Pratipada ends at 02:22 Fri, when the lead reaches 192°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 21 Mar, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:24, came before Purnima ended at 07:12: this day reads Purnima. Pratipada ends at 03:52 Fri, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Pratipada: it is kshaya.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 07:02, came after Purnima ended at 05:42: this day reads Pratipada.

The night of Wed 20 Mar ran from sunset 19:11 Wed to sunrise 07:02, 11 h 51 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:02 to 19:12, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:12 to 07:01 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 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 Phalguni spans 146°40′–160°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 156°40′. It leaves at 12:03, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 336.1° + 156.9° = 493°, one full turn and 133°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 07:36, then Vriddhi.

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 runs until 16:00, when the lead reaches 186°; Kaulava until 02:22 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:02 to 07:01 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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 15 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 5 Apr, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 5 Apr, with the Sun in Meena, begins Chaitra. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Chaitra here, and Phalguna 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 363.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.