Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 3 Jul 1931

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 04:59 on Fri 3 Jul to 06:34 on Sat 4 Jul, so it holds moonrise only on Fri 3 Jul, at 22:09. 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, 04:33 here. Dwitiya ended at 04:00 Thu, before it. Tritiya ends at 04:59, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 30 Jun, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Tritiya began at 04:00 Thu, before sunrise at 04:32 Thu, and ends at 04:59, after the next sunrise at 04:33. Both days read Tritiya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 2 Jul ran from sunset 19:34 Thu to sunrise 04:33, 8 h 59 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 35 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:33 to 19:34, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 52 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:34 to 04:33 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 7 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′. Shravana spans 280°00′–293°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 290°. It leaves at 05:04, for Dhanishtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 77.3° + 293.1° = 370.4°, one full turn and 10.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 09:58, then Priti.

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 16:25 Thu, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 04:59.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:33 to 04:33 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 16 Jun 06:01 Tue to 15 Jul 15:19 Wed the Sun stayed in Mithuna, entering Karka at 16 Jul 12:51 Thu, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashadha, before Ashadha 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 15 Jul, with the Sun in Mithuna, begins Ashadha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashadha (Adhik) here, and Ashadha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 1931, 10:50 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 102.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1988; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1853.