Panchang in Simrishamn, Skåne, Sweden Thu 15 Jul 1920

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 01:10 on Thu 15 Jul to 21:24 on Thu 15 Jul, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 15 Jul, at 03:38. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Simrishamn

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, 03:38 here. Chaturdashi ended at 01:10, before it. Amavasya ends at 21:24, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:32, came before Chaturdashi ended at 05:40: this day reads Chaturdashi. Amavasya ends at 01:54 Fri, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Amavasya: it is kshaya.

Simrishamn · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 03:38, came after Chaturdashi ended at 01:10: this day reads Amavasya.

The night of Wed 14 Jul ran from sunset 20:37 Wed to sunrise 03:38, 7 h 1 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 28 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 03:38 to 20:36, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 2 h 7 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:36 to 03:40 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 53 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′. Ardra spans 66°40′–80°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 76°40′. It leaves at 05:13, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 89.5° + 79° = 168.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 10:46, then Harshana.

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 11:17, when the lead reaches 354°; Nagava until 21:24.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 03:38 to 03:40 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 15 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 15 Jul, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 Jul, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana here, and Ashadha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 1920, 11:55 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 112.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1977; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1842.