Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 19 Oct 1933

Govardhan Puja is done in pratahkala, the first fifth of the day. Pratipada runs from 08:44 on Thu 19 Oct to 06:13 on Fri 20 Oct, between the two mornings’ pratahkala, touching neither. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier day: Thu 19 Oct. No text giving Govardhan Puja’s time was found; pratahkala is Tithika’s convention.

Govardhan Puja: every date in Sevan

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 10:49 on Wed 18 Oct to 08:44 on Thu 19 Oct, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 19 Oct, at 06:14. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:14 here. Chaturdashi ended at 10:49 Wed, before it. Amavasya ends at 08:44, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 3 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 08:44 and ended at 06:13 Fri, between the sunrises of 06:14 and 06:15 Fri. Thursday reads Amavasya and Friday reads Dwitiya: Pratipada is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Wed 18 Oct ran from sunset 17:16 Wed to sunrise 06:14, 12 h 58 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:14 to 17:15, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:15 to 06:15 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 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′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 180°. It leaves at 15:47, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 182.4° + 181° = 363.4°, one full turn and 3.4°. 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 21:53, then Priti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada ended at 21:51 Wed, when the lead reached 354°; Nagava runs until 08:44.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:14 to 06:15 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 16 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 Oct, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 19 Oct, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika here, and Ashwina in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 1933, 06:20 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 200.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1990; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1855.