Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 16 Aug 2088

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 23:10 on Sun 15 Aug to 20:16 on Mon 16 Aug, so it holds sunrise only on Mon 16 Aug, at 06:12. 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, 06:12 here. Chaturdashi ended at 23:10 Sun, before it. Amavasya ends at 20:16, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 2 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sun 15 Aug ran from sunset 19:56 Sun to sunrise 06:12, 10 h 16 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 41 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:12 to 19:55, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 42 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:55 to 06:13 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 17 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′. Ashlesha spans 106°40′–120°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 110°. It leaves at 20:47, for Magha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 119.1° + 111.1° = 230.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 226°40′–240°00′ is the 18th, Variyana. It ends at 21:14, then Parigha.

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 runs until 09:41, when the lead reaches 354°; Nagava until 20:16.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:12 to 06:13 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 18 Jul 12:40 Sun to 16 Aug 20:16 the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 17 Aug 03:57 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 16 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 23 Mar 2088, 04:01 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 140.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2145; Shaka Samvat numbers it 2010.