Panchang in Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria Thu 28 Jul 2022

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 18:42 on Wed 27 Jul to 20:55 on Thu 28 Jul, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 28 Jul, at 06:14. 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: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:14 here. Chaturdashi ended at 18:42 Wed, before it. Amavasya ends at 20:55, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 13 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 27 Jul ran from sunset 20:52 Wed to sunrise 06:14, 9 h 22 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:14 to 20:51, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 49 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:51 to 06:15 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 10 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′. Pushya spans 93°20′–106°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 93°20′. It leaves at 07:16 Fri, for Ashlesha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 100.9° + 94.2° = 195.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 15:26, then Siddhi.

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 07:50, when the lead reaches 354°; Nagava until 20:55.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:14 to 06:15 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 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 28 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 28 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: 1 Apr 2022, 09:24 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 113.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2079; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1944.