Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 17 Apr 2056

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 12°–24° is the 2nd, Shukla Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:17 here. Pratipada ended at 06:17 Sun, before it. Dwitiya ends at 08:45, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Apr, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwitiya began at 06:17 Sun, before sunrise at 06:19 Sun, and ends at 08:45, after the next sunrise at 06:17. Both days read Dwitiya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Sun 16 Apr ran from sunset 19:40 Sun to sunrise 06:17, 10 h 37 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:17 to 19:41, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 40 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:41 to 06:16 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 19 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′. Bharani spans 13°20′–26°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 23°20′. It leaves at 07:31, for Krittika.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 3.2° + 26.1° = 29.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 26°40′–40°00′ is the 3rd, Ayushmana. It ends at 02:23 Tue, then Saubhagya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 19:31 Sun, when the lead reached 18°; Kaulava runs until 08:45.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:17 to 06:16 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 Apr 03:50 Sat to 14 May 20:06 Sun the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 14 May 21:13 Sun, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha 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 Apr, with the Sun in Mesha, began Vaishakha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 16 Mar 2056, 10:52 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 31.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2113; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1978.