Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 22 Apr 2022

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, 06:11 here. Panchami ended at 09:42 Thu, before it. Shashthi ends at 07:12, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 16 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 07:12 and ended at 04:57 Sat, between the sunrises of 06:11 and 06:10 Sat. Friday reads Shashthi and Saturday reads Ashtami: Saptami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 21 Apr ran from sunset 19:45 Thu to sunrise 06:11, 10 h 26 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 41 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:11 to 19:46, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 41 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:46 to 06:10 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 18 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′. Purva Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 256°40′. It leaves at 18:44, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 7.8° + 259.2° = 267°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 266°40′–280°00′ is the 21st, Siddha. It ends at 02:43 Sat, then Sadhya.

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 20:26 Thu, when the lead reached 246°; Vanija runs until 07:12.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:11 to 06:10 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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 14 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 May, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 1 May, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha here, and Chaitra in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 1 Apr 2022, 10:24 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 20.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2079; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1944.