Panchang in Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria Sat 15 Sep 2012

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya begins at 07:10 on Sat 15 Sep, after that sunrise, and ends at 05:10 on Sun 16 Sep, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Sat 15 Sep. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Sofia

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:06 here. Trayodashi ended at 08:39 Fri, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 07:10, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Amavasya began at 07:10 and ended at 05:10 Sun, between the sunrises of 07:06 and 07:07 Sun. Saturday reads Chaturdashi and Sunday reads Pratipada: Amavasya is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Fri 14 Sep ran from sunset 19:38 Fri to sunrise 07:06, 11 h 28 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:06 to 19:36, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:36 to 07:07 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 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′. Purva Phalguni spans 133°20′–146°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 133°20′. It leaves at 00:14 Sun, for Uttara Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 148.7° + 136.6° = 285.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 19:54, then Shubha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti ended at 19:59 Fri, when the lead reached 342°; Shakuni runs until 07:10.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:06 to 07:07 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Aug 18:54 Fri to 16 Sep 05:10 Sun the Sun stayed in Simha, entering Kanya at 16 Sep 15:24 Sun, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Bhadrapada, before Bhadrapada 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 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada (Adhik) here, and Bhadrapada (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2012, 16:37 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 170.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2069; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1934.