Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 4 Aug 1920

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, 04:59 here. Tritiya ended at 05:41 Tue, before it. Chaturthi ends at 06:03, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 3 Aug ran from sunset 19:13 Tue to sunrise 04:59, 9 h 46 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 39 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:59 to 19:12, 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, 19:12 to 05:00 Thu, 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′. Uttara Bhadrapada spans 333°20′–346°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 333°20′. It leaves at 00:35 Thu, for Revati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 108.6° + 336.1° = 444.7°, one full turn and 84.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 19:54, then Dhriti.

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 ended at 17:55 Tue, when the lead reached 222°; Balava runs until 06:03.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:59 to 05:00 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 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 131.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1977; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1842.