Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 4 Apr 1923

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 05:07 on Wed 4 Apr to 02:03 on Thu 5 Apr, so it holds moonrise only on Wed 4 Apr, at 21:58. 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, 05:40 here. Tritiya ended at 05:09, before it. Chaturthi ends at 02:05 Thu, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:09, came before Tritiya ended at 07:39: this day reads Tritiya. Chaturthi ends at 04:35 Thu, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Chaturthi: it is kshaya.

Sevan · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 05:40, came after Tritiya ended at 05:09: this day reads Chaturthi.

The night of Tue 3 Apr ran from sunset 18:25 Tue to sunrise 05:40, 11 h 15 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:40 to 18:26, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:26 to 05:39 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 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′. Vishakha spans 200°00′–213°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 206°40′. It leaves at 16:12, for Anuradha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 350.5° + 206.8° = 557.3°, one full turn and 197.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 09:40, then Siddhi.

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 15:33, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 02:05 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:40 to 05:39 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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, 16 Apr, 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 16 Apr, 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: 17 Mar 1923, 15:51 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 17.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1980; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1845.