Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 11 Jan 2079

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 84°–96° is the 8th, Shukla Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:22 here. Saptami ended at 11:13 Tue, before it. Ashtami ends at 09:40, when the lead reaches 96°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 3 Jan, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Navami began at 09:40 and ended at 07:43 Thu, between the sunrises of 08:22 and 08:22 Thu. Wednesday reads Ashtami and Thursday reads Dashami: Navami is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Tue 10 Jan ran from sunset 17:52 Tue to sunrise 08:22, 14 h 30 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 58 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:22 to 17:53, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:53 to 08:22 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 0°. It leaves at 04:43 Thu, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 266.1° + 1.4° = 267.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 266°40′–280°00′ is the 21st, Siddha. It ends at 04:13 Thu, then Sadhya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti ended at 22:30 Tue, when the lead reached 90°; Bava runs until 09:40.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:22 to 08:22 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 15 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 2 Feb, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 3 Jan, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 12 Apr 2078, 13:46 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 268.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2135; Shaka Samvat numbers it 2000.