Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sat 26 Apr 1902

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 04:39 on Sat 26 Apr to 07:11 on Sun 27 Apr, so it holds moonrise only on Sat 26 Apr, at 22:08. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Sevan

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, 05:07 here. Tritiya ended at 04:41, before it. Chaturthi ends at 07:13 Sun, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 22 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturthi began at 04:41, before sunrise at 05:07, and ends at 07:13 Sun, after the next sunrise at 05:05 Sun. Both days read Chaturthi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:37, came before Tritiya ended at 07:02: this day reads Tritiya.

Sevan · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 05:07, came after Tritiya ended at 04:41: this day reads Chaturthi.

The night of Fri 25 Apr ran from sunset 18:48 Fri to sunrise 05:07, 10 h 19 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 41 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:07 to 18:49, 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, 18:49 to 05:05 Sun, 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′. Jyeshtha spans 226°40′–240°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 226°40′. It leaves at 04:14 Sun, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 12.4° + 228.6° = 241°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 04:11 Sun, then Shiva.

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 17:57, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 07:13 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:07 to 05:05 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 13 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 8 May, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 8 May, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha here, and Chaitra in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 1902, 16:49 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 17.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1959; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1824.