Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 1 Jun 1904

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 11:49 on Wed 1 Jun to 13:02 on Thu 2 Jun, so it holds moonrise only on Wed 1 Jun, at 21:51. 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: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:31 here. Dwitiya ended at 11:16 Tue, before it. Tritiya ends at 11:51, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 31 May ran from sunset 19:22 Tue to sunrise 04:31, 9 h 9 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:31 to 19:23, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 51 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:23 to 04:31 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 8 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 Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 260°. It leaves at 17:11, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 47.6° + 260.1° = 307.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 02:35 Thu, then Brahma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 23:29 Tue, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 11:51.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:31 to 04:31 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 15 May 13:57 Sun to 14 Jun 00:10 Tue the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 14 Jun 03:50 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha 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 14 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) here, and Jyeshtha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 1904, 08:39 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 73.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1961; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1826.