Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 11 Sep 1934

Hartalika Teej’s puja is done in pratahkala, the first fifth of the day. Tritiya runs from 05:49 on Tue 11 Sep to 06:23 on Wed 12 Sep, touching pratahkala on both mornings. The Nirnayasindhu takes the morning it holds more of: Tue 11 Sep. No text giving Hartalika Teej’s time was found; pratahkala is Tithika’s convention.

Hartalika Teej: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 12°–24° is the 2nd, Shukla Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:35 here. Pratipada ended at 04:47 Mon, before it. Dwitiya ends at 05:49, when the lead reaches 24°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 9 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwitiya began at 04:47 Mon, before sunrise at 05:34 Mon, and ends at 05:49, after the next sunrise at 05:35. Both days read Dwitiya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Mon 10 Sep ran from sunset 18:18 Mon to sunrise 05:35, 11 h 17 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:35 to 18:17, 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, 18:17 to 05:36 Wed, 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′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 166°40′. It leaves at 14:33, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 144.7° + 168.6° = 313.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 17:20, then Brahma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 17:21 Mon, when the lead reached 18°; Kaulava runs until 05:49.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:35 to 05:36 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 16 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 8 Oct, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 9 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada. This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 1934, 15:08 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 173.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1991; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1856.