Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 17 Jan 1949

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 15:54 on Mon 17 Jan to 12:56 on Tue 18 Jan, so it holds moonrise only on Mon 17 Jan, at 20:03. 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, 07:20 here. Dwitiya ended at 19:00 Sun, before it. Tritiya ends at 15:54, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 15 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sun 16 Jan ran from sunset 16:58 Sun to sunrise 07:20, 14 h 22 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 57 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:20 to 16:59, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 12 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 16:59 to 07:20 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 47 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′. Magha spans 120°00′–133°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 123°20′. It leaves at 21:23, for Purva Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 273.6° + 124.7° = 398.3°, one full turn and 38.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 26°40′–40°00′ is the 3rd, Ayushmana. It ends at 09:56, then Saubhagya.

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 05:27, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 15:54.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:20 to 07:20 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 13 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 29 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 29 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 9 Apr 1948, 16:16 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 277.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2005; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1870.