Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 21 Mar 2029

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 60°–72° is the 6th, Shukla Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:01 here. Panchami ended at 20:18 Tue, before it. Shashthi ends at 22:03, when the lead reaches 72°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Tue 20 Mar ran from sunset 19:12 Tue to sunrise 07:01, 11 h 49 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:01 to 19:13, 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, 19:13 to 07:00 Thu, 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′. Rohini spans 40°00′–53°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 40°. It leaves at 06:13 Thu, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 336.5° + 41.5° = 378°, one full turn and 18°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 22:45, then Ayushmana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 09:14, when the lead reaches 66°; Taitila until 22:03.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:01 to 07:00 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 Mar 08:19 Thu to 14 Apr 01:40 Sat the Sun stayed in Meena, entering Mesha at 14 Apr 02:24 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Chaitra, before Chaitra 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 15 Mar, with the Sun in Meena, began Chaitra (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Chaitra (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 2029, 08:19 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 5.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2086; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1951.