Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 15 Oct 1954

The Karwa Chauth fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 21:06 on Thu 14 Oct to 17:57 on Fri 15 Oct, between the two nights’ moonrise, touching neither. The Dharmasindhu then takes the later day: Fri 15 Oct.

Karwa Chauth: every date in Sevan

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 21:06 on Thu 14 Oct to 17:57 on Fri 15 Oct, between the two nights’ moonrise, touching neither. The Dharmasindhu then takes the later day: Fri 15 Oct. 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: 216°–228° is the 19th, Krishna Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:10 here. Tritiya ended at 21:06 Thu, before it. Chaturthi ends at 17:57, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 12 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 14 Oct ran from sunset 17:22 Thu to sunrise 06:10, 12 h 48 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:10 to 17:21, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:21 to 06:11 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 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′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 36°40′. It leaves at 07:22, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 178° + 39.3° = 217.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 20:32, then Variyana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 07:28, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 17:57.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:10 to 06:11 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 26 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 26 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: 3 Apr 1954, 15:24 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 188° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2011; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1876.