Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 4 Sep 1936

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 05:37 on Fri 4 Sep to 02:24 on Sat 5 Sep, so it holds moonrise only on Fri 4 Sep, at 19:46. 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, 05:29 here. Dwitiya ended at 09:00 Thu, before it. Tritiya ends at 05:37, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturthi began at 05:37 and ended at 02:24 Sat, between the sunrises of 05:29 and 05:30 Sat. Friday reads Tritiya and Saturday reads Panchami: Chaturthi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 3 Sep ran from sunset 18:29 Thu to sunrise 05:29, 11 h 0 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:29 to 18:27, 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 night here, 18:27 to 05:30 Sat, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 353°20′. It leaves at 14:40, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 138.4° + 354.3° = 492.7°, one full turn and 132.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 06:26, then Vriddhi.

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 19:18 Thu, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 05:37.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:29 to 05:30 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 17 Aug 06:20 Mon to 15 Sep 20:41 Tue the Sun stayed in Simha, entering Kanya at 16 Sep 04:01 Wed, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Bhadrapada, before Bhadrapada 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 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada (Adhik) here, and Bhadrapada (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 23 Mar 1936, 07:13 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 159° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1993; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1858.