Panchang in Chahārbāgh, Alborz Province, Iran Wed 5 Jul 2034

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 22:15 on Tue 4 Jul to 21:50 on Wed 5 Jul, so it holds moonrise only on Wed 5 Jul, at 21:50. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Chahārbāgh

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 216°–228° is the 19th, Krishna Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:56 here. Tritiya ended at 22:15 Tue, before it. Chaturthi ends at 21:50, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 4 Jul ran from sunset 19:26 Tue to sunrise 04:56, 9 h 30 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:56 to 19:26, 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 night here, 19:26 to 04:56 Thu, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 296°40′. It leaves at 20:23, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 78.8° + 298.2° = 377°, one full turn and 17°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 21:22, then Ayushmana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 10:05, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 21:50.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:56 to 04:56 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 16 Jun 13:55 Fri to 15 Jul 21:45 Sat the Sun stayed in Mithuna, entering Karka at 16 Jul 22:47 Sun, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashadha, before Ashadha 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 15 Jul, with the Sun in Mithuna, begins Ashadha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashadha (Adhik) here, and Ashadha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 2034, 13:44 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 103.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2091; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1956.