Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 15 Apr 2075

The Sun enters Mesha at 21:22 Sun, after sunset (19:38 Sun), so the next day keeps it: Mon 15 Apr. No text giving Mesha Sankranti’s time was found; sankranti is Tithika’s convention.

Mesha Sankranti: every date in Sevan

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 12:36 on Sun 14 Apr to 12:56 on Mon 15 Apr, so it holds sunrise only on Mon 15 Apr, at 06:21. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:21 here. Chaturdashi ended at 12:36 Sun, before it. Amavasya ends at 12:56, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sun 14 Apr ran from sunset 19:38 Sun to sunrise 06:21, 10 h 43 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:21 to 19:39, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:39 to 06:20 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 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′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 356°40′. It leaves at 11:44, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 0.4° + 357.1° = 357.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 10:42, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada ended at 00:43, when the lead reached 354°; Nagava runs until 12:56.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:21 to 06:20 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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, 15 Apr, 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 15 Apr, 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: 16 Mar 2075, 23:26 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 29° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2132; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1997.