Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 3 Aug 1920

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 05:39 on Tue 3 Aug to 06:01 on Wed 4 Aug, so it holds moonrise only on Tue 3 Aug, at 20:40. 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, 04:58 here. Dwitiya ended at 04:56 Mon, before it. Tritiya ends at 05:41, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Tritiya began at 04:56 Mon, before sunrise at 04:57 Mon, and ends at 05:41, after the next sunrise at 04:58. Both days read Tritiya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Mon 2 Aug ran from sunset 19:14 Mon to sunrise 04:58, 9 h 44 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:58 to 19:13, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 46 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:13 to 04:59 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 13 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 Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 320°. It leaves at 23:51, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 107.7° + 323.3° = 431°, one full turn and 71°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 20:48, then Sukarma.

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 17:21 Mon, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 05:41.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:58 to 04:59 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 Jul 23:24 Thu to 14 Aug 06:43 Sat the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 16 Aug 01:42 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 1920, 13:55 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 130.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1977; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1842.